Dr Koukeo Phommasone
Contact information
Koukeo Phommasone
Infectious Disease Physician
- Malariologist
- Associate Research Fellow
LOMWRU
I have been working as a research physician at the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) in the Microbiology Department, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR since 2009. My work involves clinical liaison between our laboratory and hospital wards and a significant contribution to many medical research projects carried out at our Unit, such as the clinical epidemiology of melioidosis and meningitis in Laos and clinical trials of typhus treatment. My main studies deal with epidemiology of Hand, Foot and Mouth disease in Vientiane and coordinator of Expanded Fever surveillance (1) in three provinces of Laos. currently I am a PhD student registered at Amsterdam University, the Netherlands working on Targeted Malaria Elimination Project.
Recent publications
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                Complete genomes of Rickettsia typhi reveal a clonal populationPreprint Keeratipusana C. et al, (2025) 
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                Understanding the primary healthcare context in rural South and Southeast Asia: a village profiling studyPreprint Chew R. et al, (2024) 
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                Dry Swabs and Dried Saliva as Alternative Samples for SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Remote Areas in Lao PDR.Journal article Sibounheuang B. et al, (2024), Open forum infectious diseases, 11 
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                The Selangor Consensus: strengthening clinical trials for local public health in the Western PacificJournal article Park K. et al, (2024), The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 48 
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                Which trial do we need? A pragmatic randomized trial of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole vs. vancomycin for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in low-resource settings.Journal article Recht J. et al, (2024), Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases