Dr Tamalee Roberts
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Tamalee Roberts
Research Microbiologist
- Data Manager
LOMWRU
Dr Tamalee Roberts is a Research Microbiologist and Data Manager working at the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital Wellcome Research Unit (LOMWRU) in Vientiane, Laos in collaboration with the Mathematical Modelling Group (MAEMOD) at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok. Tamalee spent 10 years working in clinical diagnostic microbiology and parasitology in Australia before pursuing her passion for developing research and diagnostic capacity in LMICs. She has a PhD in Molecular Parasitology.
Tamalee currently works on developing and supporting new databases for storage of quality data from large multi-center studies, assisting the clinical microbiology laboratory in LQMS documentation and implementation in lines with ISO 15189, as well as collaborating on several research projects on antimicrobial resistance, rickettsial and zoonotic diseases, and leishmaniasis.
Recent publications
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Utility of InTray COLOREX Screen agar and InTray COLOREX ESBL agar for urine culture in the Lao PDR.
Journal article
Roberts T. et al, (2022), JAC-antimicrobial resistance, 4
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Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
Journal article
Murray CJL. et al, (2022), The Lancet, 399, 629 - 655
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A multi-country study using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for rapid identification of Burkholderia pseudomallei
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Watthanaworawit W. et al, (2021), BMC Microbiology, 21
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Impact of delays to incubation and storage temperature on blood culture results: a multi-centre study
Journal article
Ling CL. et al, (2021), BMC Infectious Diseases, 21
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Antimicrobial use and resistance data in human and animal sectors in the Lao PDR: evidence to inform policy
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Chansamouth V. et al, (2021), BMJ Global Health, 6, e007009 - e007009