Herbert "Bert" Lancashire DuPont (born November 12, 1938, in Toledo, Ohio[1]) is an American physician, medical school professor, and medical researcher, specializing in infectious diseases.
DuPont's research is particularly concerned with diarrheal diseases. In 1971 he was one of the researchers who described the biological properties of the Norwalk virus (later classified as one of the human noroviruses),[5] and in a much-cited 1971 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine,[6] he described the pathogenesis of diarrhea by Escherichia coli. His research also deals with other diarrheal agents such as Shigella,[7]rotaviruses,[8]Salmonella serotype Typhi bacteria,[9]Cryptosporidium parvum,[10] and Giardia.[11][12] He and his colleagues demonstrated the effectiveness of rifaximin against travelers' diarrhea.[13][14][15] In field studies in Mexico, he showed that tap water with viral pathogens, including rotaviruses, was a major source of infection with viral diarrhea.[4]
Herbert DuPont and his wife, Margaret Wright DuPont, are both graduates of Ohio Wesleyan University's class of 1961. She has a master's degree in psychology from the Ohio State University.[18]
They established the Herbert L. and Margaret Wright DuPont Endowed Professorship at Ohio Wesleyan University.[18]
^Dolin, R.; Blacklow, N. R.; DuPont, H.; Buscho, R. F.; Wyatt, R. G.; Kasel, J. A.; Hornick, R.; Chanock, R. M. (1972). "Biological properties of Norwalk agent of acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis". Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. 140 (2): 578–583. doi:10.3181/00379727-140-36508. PMID4624851. S2CID26828518.
^DuPont, Herbert L.; Formal, Samuel B.; Hornick, Richard B.; Snyder, Merrill J.; Libonati, Joseph P.; Sheahan, Daniel G.; Labrec, Eugene H.; Kalas, John P. (1971). "Pathogenesis of Escherichia coli Diarrhea". New England Journal of Medicine. 285 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1056/NEJM197107012850101. PMID4996788. (over 800 citations)
^Levine, M. M.; DuPont, H. L.; Formal, S. B.; Hornick, R. B.; Takeuchi, A.; Gangarosa, E. J.; Snyder, M. J.; Libonati, J. P. (1973). "Pathogenesis of Shigella dysenteriae 1 (Shiga) Dysentery". Journal of Infectious Diseases. 127 (3): 261–270. doi:10.1093/infdis/127.3.261. PMID4631877.
^Mathewson, John J.; Winsor, Donald K.; DuPont, Herbert L.; Secor, Sandra L. (1989). "Evaluation of assay systems for the detection of rotavirus in stool specimens". Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 12 (2): 139–141. doi:10.1016/0732-8893(89)90004-7. PMID2546712.
^Pickering, Larry K.; Woodward, William E.; DuPont, Herbert L.; Sullivan, Peggy (1984). "Occurrence of Giardia lamblia in children in day care centers". The Journal of Pediatrics. 104 (4): 522–526. doi:10.1016/S0022-3476(84)80540-5. PMID6707812.
^Steffen, R.; et al. (including Herbert L. DuPont) (2003). "Therapy of travelers' diarrhea with rifaximin on various continents". The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 98 (5): 1073–1078. doi:10.1016/S0002-9270(02)06005-7. PMID12809830.