Our work in Thailand focuses on two key areas:

Malaria
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) undertakes large scale projects tackling Malaria in Burmese refugee and migrant worker communities, with a particular focus on malaria in pregnancy and early motherhood. SMRU treats 20,000 cases of malaria annually.

Bacterial diseases
The Bangkok Unit laboratories provide a scientific and logistical base for bacterial disease research, including a large BSL3 laboratory, but most of the clinical and diagnostic research takes place at our study sites up-country.

At Ubon Ratchathani we study melioidosis, Staphylococcus aureus disease and cryptococcal meningitis; at Udon Thani Hospital we study leptospirosis and scrub typhus, and plan in the future to recruit to studies the large number of melioidosis patients admitted there; and in Mae Sod there is laboratory microbiological support for SMRU, currently for a study of fever in pregnancy and of acute respiratory illness in children. The Bangkok-based microbiology department works closely with and supports the microbiology laboratories of the Laos Project and of the Angkor Children’s Hospital in Siem Riep, Cambodia.

We play an active role in the new Thailand Melioidosis Clinical Trials Group. This collaboration, based in Khon Kaen University, coordinates large multi-centre trials into the treatment of melioidosis.

For more information click the following links:

- SMRU
- Ubon Ratchathani
- Melioidosis Network