Dr Mohammad Katouli
BSc Tehran, PhD Ulster
Position: Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology
Office: I2.11A
Tel: +61 7 5430 2845
Fax: +61 7 5430 2887
Email: mkatouli@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Microbial Pathogenesis
Research areas
- Molecular pathogenesis of bacterial translocation and sepsis
- The impact of probiotics on bacterial translocation
- Prevalence and persistence of antibiotic resistance genes in hospital, sewage and surface waters
- Microbial source tracking and the impact of faecal pollution of surface waters on human health
Profile
Dr Mohammad Katouli has an extensive international experience in medical microbiology, infectious disease and pathogenesis of bacteria. Following his PhD and post-doc experience in UK, he worked for three years at the research and development Department of the D.P Pharmaceuticals. In 1983, he took the position of the Head of Microbiology Department at the Pasteur Institute in Tehran where he conducted a number of nation-wide research projects on the etiology of diarrheal diseases and the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes among P. aeruginosa in burn-injury hospitals. He also delivered lectures in medical microbiology and infectious diseases in several universities in Tehran.
From 1989, Dr Katouli started working at the Microbiology and Tumorbiology Centre of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden as a senior research fellow where he worked with many European scientists on several projects including “Pathogenesis of E.coli sepsis and bacterial translocation”, “Changes in the intestinal flora of sarcoma patients undergoing cytostatic therapy”, “Characterisation of the gut microflora after inflammation of the intestinal reservoir in pouchitis patients” and “Virulence properties of E. coli strains associated with ulcerative colitis”. He was also involved in the development of a microplate-based automated biochemical fingerprinting method for epidemiological investigation of pathogenic bacteria in communities and in hospital settings.
In 1998, Dr Katouli took up a teaching and research position at the University of the Sunshine Coast and established courses in Medical Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis. His research areas include Molecular pathogenesis of bacterial translocation and the impact of probiotics, Epidemiology and ecology of pathogenic clones of bacteria and microbial source tracking. He has been collaborating with many national and international scientists and research institutes and has supervised more than 28 Honours and 18 PhD and four Master students to completion during his scientific career. Some of his PhD students have also received travel grants to visit and work at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden as part of their PhD program.
Dr Katouli has more than 147 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews, book chapters and conference refereed proceedings in the areas of epidemiology of infectious diseases and pathogenesis of bacteria as related to human and animal health. One of his papers entitled “Bulking fiber prevents translocation to mesenteric lymph nodes of an efficiently translocating E. coli strain in rats” published in "Clinical Nutrition" received the 1st prize for the best original article published in clinical nutrition in 1998 at the 21st Congress of the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Dr Mohammad Katouli are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
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