Dr Janjira Thaipadungpanit
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Janjira Thaipadungpanit
Senior Scientist
Microbiology
Janjira Thaipadungpani is a molecular microbiologist based at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine research Unit, Thailand. She is Head of Molecular Microbiology at the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medical Research Unit (MOMRU).
Her research interests include:
- Molecular epidemiology of leptospirosis and melioidosis using multicolus sequence typing or genome data;
- Molecular diagnosis for identification aetiology of acute febrile illness and sepsis patients.
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Molecular diagnosis and bacterial genotyping
A molecular microbiologist, Dr Janjira’s research focusses on using bacterial typing based on genome to confirm which disease is present in a patient. She aims to develop a single whole genome sequence type test using mutliple-PCR assays that can determine from a single sample of blood what bacteria or viruses are present in a patient’s blood – thereby speeding up diagnosis and potentially saving lives in resource-limited settings.
Recent publications
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Omar FD. et al, (2023), Trop Med Infect Dis, 8
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Schilling WHK. et al, (2023), eLife, 12
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Brizuela J. et al, (2023), Microbial genomics, 9
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Chakma R. et al, (2022), Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 7
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Chomkatekaew C. et al, (2022)