Professor Guy Thwaites
Podcast interview
Tuberculosis meningitis
Tuberculosis meningitis affects a fractions of TB patients but causes high levels of mortality and morbidity. A recent trial at OUCRU showed that aspirin can greatly improve outcomes. Such trial is typical of the work done in our Vietnam units, where all the research is focussed on improving the outcome for patients directly.
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Guy Thwaites
Professor of Infectious Diseases
- Director of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), Vietnam
OUCRU Vietnam
Guy Thwaites is an academic infectious diseases physician and clinical microbiologist. He has been Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit/Wellcome Programme in Vietnam since October 2013. He is responsible for the scientific strategy of the programme, with its major research themes of emerging viral infections, dengue, brain infections, tuberculosis, malaria, enteric infections, antimicrobial drug resistance and care of the critically ill.
His personal research interests focus on severe bacterial infections, including meningitis and Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection, and tuberculosis. He has a longstanding research interest in the diagnosis, treatment and pathophysiology of tuberculous meningitis. Much of his research has been centred on large, pragmatic, randomized controlled trials which have addressed questions of key clinical importance, but have also provided the framework for providing unique insights into disease pathogenesis, antimicrobial pharmacology, and host and bacterial genetics.
Recent publications
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Dimethyl fumarate in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
Peto L. et al, (2023), Nature Communications
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Adjunctive Dexamethasone for Tuberculous Meningitis in HIV-Positive Adults.
Donovan J. et al, (2023), The New England journal of medicine, 389, 1357 - 1367
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Multidrug resistance plasmids underlie clonal expansions and international spread of Salmonella enterica serotype 1,4,[5],12:i:- ST34 in Southeast Asia.
Chung The H. et al, (2023), Communications biology, 6
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Automated pupillometry and optic nerve sheath diameter ultrasound to define tuberculous meningitis disease severity and prognosis.
Casey F. et al, (2023), Journal of the neurological sciences, 453
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis control in Indonesia: a nationwide longitudinal analysis of programme data.
Surendra H. et al, (2023), The Lancet. Global health, 11, e1412 - e1421