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A Professor of Parasitology, Dr. Robinson combines various diagnostic techniques with the results of electron micrographs and cytochemistry to provide novel information on infectious diseases in Jamaica. Over the years, he has investigated the transmission of Angiostrongylus cantonensis to humans as well as the presence of the infection in wild rats and snails. He was also involved in the study of infection in red tilapia, intestinal helminths in dogs in the Kingston Metropolitan Area with an emphasis on Ancylostoma sp. and the plant compound, Eryngial, as an effective treatment against human Strongyloides stercoralis infection.


Ph.D. Degrees Awarded
  • Michael S. Wong 1988: (with Dr D. Bundy, Imperial College, London)
  • John F. Lindo 1992: Studies of the epidemiology of human Strongyloides stercoralis infection at endemic foci in Jamaica
  • Wayne M. Forbes 1998: Laboratory studies of the activity of extracts of selected Jamaican plants against infective larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis (Nematoda)
M.Phil. Degrees Awarded
  • Camille Whyte 1992: Protein losing enteropathy and trichuriasis (with Dr E.S. Cooper, Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, UWI)
  • Alicia E. Lyn-Sue 1998: Studies of the epidemiology of intestinal parasitic infections in a Jamaican community
  • Keisha Singh 2002: Studies of the epidemiology of Dirofilaria immitis infections in Jamaica.
  • Hugh E. Lounges (M.Phil. submitted). Immuno-Epidemiological Studies of Human Toxocara canis Infections in Jamaica
  • Nicola O'Connor 2005. Interactions between a marine monogenean, Neobenedenia melleni, and marine cage-cultured red hybrid tilapia Oreochromis spp.
  • Stacey McKoy 2005. Ecoparasitological studies of Thiara granifera at Mona Reservoir, Kingston, Jamaica
Theses In Preparation
  • Cecelia Waugh (PhD).  Zoonotic status of Angiostronyglus cantonensis in Jamaica
  • Lisa Daley (M.Phil).  Studies of the enteric helminth fauna of Herpestes auropunctatus (Small Indian Mongoose) in the Hellshire Hills, St. Catherine, Jamaica - assessing the effect of human disturbance
  • Suzette Fletcher (MPhil).  Molecular characterisation of hookworm infections in dogs in Jamaica
  • Chinedu Okoro (MPhil).  Population distribution of enteric helminths in wild pigs, Jamaica.
  • Cheridah Todd (MPhil).  Molecular characterisation of Angiostrongylus cantonensis; diagnostic potential
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