Andrew Simpson

Consultant Clinical Microbiologist

Andrew Simpson is a Clinical Microbiologist with the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital Wellcome Research Unit in Vientiane (LOMWRU), where he works on a variety of infections of importance to public health in Laos. Previously he has worked for Oxford University in Bangkok, and has held posts with both DSTL and Public Health England in the UK.

He has long had a research interest in laboratory and clinical aspects of melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei infection) and plans to continue to develop this, as well as environmental aspects. He is also interested in antimicrobial resistance, leptospirosis, streptococci and CNS infections, as well as wide variety of other bacterial and viral infections. In addition, he is interested in helping to build clinical and research laboratory capacity in the Lao PDR.

Key publications

Comparison of Imipenem and Ceftazidime as Therapy for Severe Melioidosis
Simpson AJH. et al, (1999), Clinical Infectious Diseases, 29, 381 - 387
ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test kit for point-of-care and laboratory-based testing for Ebola virus disease: a field validation study.
Broadhurst MJ. et al, (2015), Lancet (London, England), 386, 867 - 874
Performance of the GeneXpert Ebola Assay for Diagnosis of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone: A Field Evaluation Study.
Semper AE. et al, (2016), PLoS medicine, 13
A Comparison of the Adaptive Immune Response between Recovered Anthrax Patients and Individuals Receiving Three Different Anthrax Vaccines.
Laws TR. et al, (2016), PloS one, 11
Bacteremia Caused by Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Vientiane, Lao PDR: A 5-Year Study.
Chang K. et al, (2020), The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 102, 1137 - 1143

Recent publications

Community-acquired Group B streptococcal meningitis in adults
Dance DAB. et al, (2020), Journal of Infection, 81, 147 - 178
Bacteremia Caused by Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Vientiane, Lao PDR: A 5-Year Study.
Chang K. et al, (2020), The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 102, 1137 - 1143
UK vaccines network: Mapping priority pathogens of epidemic potential and vaccine pipeline developments.
Noad RJ. et al, (2019), Vaccine, 37, 6241 - 6247
Prolonged Zika Virus RNA Detection in Semen of Immunosuppressed Patient.
Petridou C. et al, (2019), Emerging infectious diseases, 25, 1598 - 1600
Zika virus infection in travellers returning to the United Kingdom during the period of the outbreak in the Americas (2016-17): A retrospective analysis.
Petridou C. et al, (2019), Travel medicine and infectious disease, 29, 21 - 27

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