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
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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)
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Hantrakun V. et al, (2018), PLOS ONE, 13, e0204509 - e0204509
Soil Nutrient Depletion Is Associated with the Presence of Burkholderia pseudomallei
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Hantrakun V. et al, (2016), Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82, 7086 - 7092
Melioidosis in Thailand: Present and Future
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Hinjoy S. et al, (2018), Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 3, 38 - 38
Cost-effectiveness analysis of parenteral antimicrobials for acute melioidosis in Thailand
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Hantrakun V. et al, (2015), Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 109, 803 - 803

Recent publications

A Two Biomarker Model Augments Clinical Prediction of Mortality in Melioidosis.
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Wright SW. et al, (2020), Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Clinical Epidemiology of 7,126 Melioidosis Patients in Thailand and the Implications for a National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
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Hantrakun V. et al, (2019), Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Sensitivity and specificity of a lateral flow immunoassay (LFI) in serum samples for diagnosis of melioidosis
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Wongsuvan G. et al, (2018), Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Rapid design and fielding of four diagnostic technologies in Sierra Leone, Thailand, Peru, and Australia: Successes and challenges faced introducing these biosensors
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Mulvaney SP. et al, (2018), Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 20, 22 - 33
Melioidosis in Thailand: Present and Future
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Hinjoy S. et al, (2018), Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 3, 38 - 38

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