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.
Recent publications
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Causes of fever in primary care in Southeast Asia and the performance of C-reactive protein in discriminating bacterial from viral pathogens
Althaus T. et al, (2020), International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 96, 334 - 342
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Optimization of Culture Protocols to Isolate Leptospira spp. from Environmental Water, Field Investigation, and Identification of Factors Associated with the Presence of Leptospira spp. in the Environment.
Narkkul U. et al, (2020), Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 5
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The spread of chloramphenicol-resistant Neisseria meningitidis in Southeast Asia
Batty EM. et al, (2020), International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 95, 198 - 203
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Impact of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency on dengue infection in Myanmar children
May WL. et al, (2019), PLOS ONE, 14, e0209204 - e0209204
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Effect of point-of-care C-reactive protein testing on antibiotic prescription in febrile patients attending primary care in Thailand and Myanmar: an open-label, randomised, controlled trial
Althaus T. et al, (2019), The Lancet Global Health, 7, e119 - e131