Viriya Hantrakun

Clinical Researcher

Melioidosis Epidemiology & Sepsis group

I am a lead clinical researcher in the melioidosis epidemiology & sepsis group under Associate Professor Direk Limmathurotsakul’s research group, Microbiology Department at MORU.

My PhD thesis includes the studies of environmental factors associated with the presence of Burkholderia pseudomallei, association between serological response to B. pseudomallei and an exposure to the organism and its closely related species (B. thailandensis), burden of melioidosis and Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System in Thailand. I am also a project coordinator and a contributor (database design) for www.melioidosis.info, which aims to generate evidence of melioidosis worldwide and to raise awareness about the burden of melioidosis among scientists, policy makers and the public.

More recently, I have started a study of the clinical epidemiology of community-acquired sepsis and the economic burden of neglected tropical diseases.

Key publications

Presence of B. thailandensis and B. thailandensis expressing B. pseudomallei-like capsular polysaccharide in Thailand, and their associations with serological response to B. pseudomallei
Hantrakun V. et al, (2018), PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12, e0006193 - e0006193
Clinical epidemiology and outcomes of community acquired infection and sepsis among hospitalized patients in a resource limited setting in Northeast Thailand: A prospective observational study (Ubon-sepsis)
Hantrakun V. et al, (2018), PLOS ONE, 13, e0204509 - e0204509
Soil Nutrient Depletion Is Associated with the Presence of Burkholderia pseudomallei
Hantrakun V. et al, (2016), Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82, 7086 - 7092
Melioidosis in Thailand: Present and Future
Hinjoy S. et al, (2018), Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 3, 38 - 38
Cost-effectiveness analysis of parenteral antimicrobials for acute melioidosis in Thailand
Hantrakun V. et al, (2015), Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 109, 803 - 803

Recent publications

Impact of low blood culture usage on rates of antimicrobial resistance.
Lim C. et al, (2020), The Journal of infection
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
Lactoferrin is a dynamic protein in human melioidosis and is a TLR4-dependent driver of TNF-α release in Burkholderia thailandensis infection in vitro.
Wright SW. et al, (2020), PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 14
sTREM-1 predicts mortality in hospitalized patients with infection in a tropical, middle-income country.
Wright SW. et al, (2020), BMC medicine, 18
Human Immune Responses to Melioidosis and Cross-Reactivity to Low-Virulence Burkholderia Species, Thailand1.
Rongkard P. et al, (2020), Emerging infectious diseases, 26, 463 - 471

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