Cherry Lim
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Cherry Lim
Wellcome Trust Training Fellow
- DPhil Student of Clinical Medicine
Education
MSc in Medical statistics
BSc in Biomedical science
Previous Experience
I joined MORU since 2012 and under Dr. Direk's supervision was awarded the Wellcome Trust Master Fellowship in 2013. We were working on a project that aimed to evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic tests for scrub typhus using Bayesian Latent class models. I studied MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2013-2014.
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Thesis
Epidemiology and health burdens of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infection in Southeast Asia and the impact of antibiotic use on patient survival
My research is on drug-resistant infection (DRI). I aim to study epidemiology of DRI in details and estimate the number of excess deaths due to DRI in Southeast and South Asia. I will also evaluate the impact of appropriate and inappropriate antibiotic use in hospitals in Southeast Asia. There is a lack of precise understanding on the consequences of antibiotic underuse, misuse and overuse in hospitals in developing countries. I will use advanced statistical models to systematically evaluate the impact of antibiotic use on patient survival in a developing country. I will then compare those findings with that in the United Kingdom, where antibiotic use is better controlled.
These all are important to assist the designing of an intervention to improve antibiotic use and reduce DRI infection in developing countries.
Recent publications
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Surveillance strategies using routine microbiology for antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries
Lim C. et al, (2021), Clinical Microbiology and Infection
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Effect of Delays in Concordant Antibiotic Treatment on Mortality in Patients with Hospital-Acquired Acinetobacter spp. Bacteremia: Emulating a Target Randomised Trial with a 13-year Retrospective Cohort.
Lim C. et al, (2021), American journal of epidemiology
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Impact of low blood culture usage on rates of antimicrobial resistance.
Lim C. et al, (2021), The Journal of infection, 82, 355 - 362
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Automating the Generation of Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Reports: Proof-of-Concept Study Involving Seven Hospitals in Seven Countries
Lim C. et al, (2020), Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22, e19762 - e19762
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Effect of delays in concordant antibiotic treatment on mortality in patients with hospital-acquired Acinetobacter spp. bacteremia in Thailand: a 13-year retrospective cohort
Lim C. et al, (2020), INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, 41, S184 - S185