Professor Frank Smithuis

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Although malaria is decreasing in Myanmar, resistance to anti-malarials is on the rise in the region and the focus is now to treat people early, particularly in remote communities. MOCRU has set up a network of community health workers, trained and supplied with diagnostics, bednets and treatments, to help improve access to healthcare as well as produce the evidence to encourage policy changes.

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Frank Smithuis

Associate Professor

Myanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit

Frank Smithuis's interests include the epidemiology and management of malaria- in particular artemisinin resistant malaria- the aetiology and management of fever, and the management of tuberculosis, HIV and opportunistic infections.

The research unit is linked to a network of 6 clinics and 650 Community Health workers in remote areas. Most research questions originate from the day to day health issues in this network.

Effect of a single dose of primaquine on Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage after ACT

Key publications

Spread of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Myanmar: a cross-sectional survey of the K13 molecular marker
Tun KM. et al, (2015), The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 15, 415 - 421
Assessment of therapeutic responses to gametocytocidal drugs in Plasmodium falciparum malaria
White NJ. et al, (2014), Malaria Journal, 13
Mortality in Patients With AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in Myanmar
Tun N. et al, (2014), Clinical Infectious Diseases, 59, 1650 - 1651
The effect of insecticide-treated bed nets on the incidence and prevalence of malaria in children in an area of unstable seasonal transmission in western Myanmar
Smithuis FM. et al, (2013), Malaria Journal, 12, 363 - 363
Entomological determinants of insecticide-treated bed net effectiveness in Western Myanmar
Smithuis FM. et al, (2013), Malaria Journal, 12, 364 - 364

Recent publications

Serological evidence indicates widespread distribution of rickettsioses in Myanmar.
Elders PND. et al, (2020), International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 103, 494 - 501
Genetic analysis of the orthologous crt and mdr1 genes in Plasmodium malariae from Thailand and Myanmar
Pimpat Y. et al, (2020), Malaria Journal, 19
Molecular epidemiology of resistance to antimalarial drugs in the Greater Mekong subregion: an observational study
Imwong M. et al, (2020), The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20, 1470 - 1480
Impact of a package of diagnostic tools, clinical algorithm, and training and communication on outpatient acute fever case management in low- and middle-income countries: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Salami O. et al, (2020), Trials, 21
The risk of Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia after P. falciparum malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis from the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network
Hossain MS. et al, (2020), PLOS Medicine, 17, e1003393 - e1003393

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