Duncan Webster

Summary

Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi Antimycobacterial screening of traditional medicinal plants using the microplate resazurin assay
    Duncan Webster
    Department of Medicine, Saint John Regional Hospital, Canada
    Can J Microbiol 56:487-94. 2010
  2. ncbi Cluster of cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Alberta, Canada
    Duncan Webster
    Division of Infectious Diseases, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:914-8. 2007
  3. ncbi Antifungal activity of medicinal plant extracts; preliminary screening studies
    Duncan Webster
    Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Saint John Regional Hospital, PO Box 2100, Saint John, New Brunswick E2L 4L2, Canada
    J Ethnopharmacol 115:140-6. 2008
  4. ncbi Fluoroquinolone resistance in renal isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    D Webster
    Department of Internal Medicine, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
    Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 14:217-22. 2010
  5. ncbi Anti-mycobacterial diynes from the Canadian medicinal plant Aralia nudicaulis
    Haoxin Li
    Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada E2L 4L5
    J Ethnopharmacol 140:141-4. 2012
  6. ncbi Immunostimulant properties of Heracleum maximum Bartr
    Duncan Webster
    Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta, Canada T6G 2R7
    J Ethnopharmacol 106:360-3. 2006
  7. ncbi Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin in Canada
    Duncan Webster
    Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2R7
    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 57:177-81. 2007
  8. ncbi Q fever update, Maritime Canada
    Thomas J Marrie
    Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    Emerg Infect Dis 14:67-9. 2008

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Publications8

  1. ncbi Antimycobacterial screening of traditional medicinal plants using the microplate resazurin assay
    Duncan Webster
    Department of Medicine, Saint John Regional Hospital, Canada
    Can J Microbiol 56:487-94. 2010
    ..maximum and Acorus calamus possess strong in vitro antimycobacterial activity, validates traditional knowledge, and provides potential for the development of urgently needed novel antituberculous therapeutics...
  2. ncbi Cluster of cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Alberta, Canada
    Duncan Webster
    Division of Infectious Diseases, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:914-8. 2007
    ..The cluster is unusual given that three cases were from a single family and involved a 7-year-old child. This is the first family cluster reported in Canada and includes one of the youngest cases of HPS reported in North America...
  3. ncbi Antifungal activity of medicinal plant extracts; preliminary screening studies
    Duncan Webster
    Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Saint John Regional Hospital, PO Box 2100, Saint John, New Brunswick E2L 4L2, Canada
    J Ethnopharmacol 115:140-6. 2008
    ..Thus antifungal therapy is playing a greater role in health care. Traditional plants are a valuable source of novel antifungals...
  4. ncbi Fluoroquinolone resistance in renal isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    D Webster
    Department of Internal Medicine, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
    Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 14:217-22. 2010
    ..Alberta, Canada, 1990-2003...
  5. ncbi Anti-mycobacterial diynes from the Canadian medicinal plant Aralia nudicaulis
    Haoxin Li
    Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada E2L 4L5
    J Ethnopharmacol 140:141-4. 2012
    ..Previous investigations of aqueous extracts of Aralia nudicaulis rhizomes have shown it to possess antimycobacterial activity...
  6. ncbi Immunostimulant properties of Heracleum maximum Bartr
    Duncan Webster
    Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta, Canada T6G 2R7
    J Ethnopharmacol 106:360-3. 2006
    ..These positive results confirm the hypothesis of immunostimulation and thus support the anecdotal reports of antiviral activity...
  7. ncbi Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin in Canada
    Duncan Webster
    Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2R7
    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 57:177-81. 2007
    ..This is the first strain of MRSA with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin reported in Canada. The breakpoints for vancomycin susceptibility have been revised in light of such observations...
  8. ncbi Q fever update, Maritime Canada
    Thomas J Marrie
    Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    Emerg Infect Dis 14:67-9. 2008
    ..Passive surveillance for Q fever in Nova Scotia and its neighboring provinces in eastern Canada indicates that the clinical manifestation of Q fever in the Maritime provinces is pneumonia and that incidence of the disease may fluctuate...