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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Severe leptospirosis with rhabdomyolysis in a traveller visiting Thailand.
Putri A. et al, (2024), Journal of travel medicine, 31
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Diagnostic challenges and antibody kinetics in a paediatric traveller with scrub typhus
Looareesuwan P. et al, (2023), Journal of Travel Medicine, 30
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Pneumococcal carriage among high-risk adults in a country with nonmandatory pneumococcal vaccination during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Ngamprasertchai T. et al, (2023), Journal of infection and public health, 16, 1102 - 1108
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Diversity of Human Enterovirus Co-Circulations in Five Kindergartens in Bangkok between July 2019 and January 2020.
Sittikul P. et al, (2023), Viruses, 15
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Detection of maternal transmission of resistant Gram-negative bacteria in a Cambodian hospital setting
Chomkatekaew C. et al, (2023), Frontiers in Microbiology, 14