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    Assessing the role of undetected colonization and isolation precautions in reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in intensive care units
    (2010-02) Kypraios, Theodore; O'Neill, Philip D.; Huang, Susan S.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Cooper, Ben S; Kypraios, Theodore; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine
    patient days. Estimating these MRSA-positive patient days and the reduction in transmission due to isolation presents a major methodological challenge, but is essential for assessing both the value of existing control policies and the potential benefit... single-bed adult intensive care units (ICUs) over 17 months. Detected MRSA-positive patients were isolated using single rooms and barrier precautions. Data were analyzed using stochastic transmission models and model fitting was performed within a
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    Climate induces seasonality in pneumococcal transmission.
    (2015-06) Numminen, Elina; Chewapreecha, Claire; Turner, Claudia; Goldblatt, David; Nosten, Francois; Bentley, Stephen D.; Turner, Paul; Corander, Jukka; Numminen, Elina; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit.
    to it are not yet fully understood. We use data from a cohort of infants in Asia to study the effects of climatic conditions on both acquisition and clearance rates of the bacterium, finding significantly higher transmissibility during the cooler and drier months
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    Correlates of practicing nursing standard infectious control for aids precaution through nursing intervention among ER nurses in Surat Thani Province
    (2007) Sulee Thongvichean; Punyarat Lapvongwatana; Priyakamon Khan; Sasipen Homsanit; สุลี ทองวิเชียร; ปัญญรัตน์ ลาภวงศ์วัฒนา; ปรียากมล ข่าน; Sulee Thongvichean; Mahidol university. Faculty of Public Health. Department of Public Health Nursing.
    The present study aims examine the correlates of practicing of nursing standard infectious control for AIDS precautions (NSICAP) among all 129 professional nurses who worked in the emergency room of 20 governmental hospitals in Surat Thani... of facilities, working experience with AIDS patients, and working experience with other communicable disease patients and training with AIDS precautions were not associated with the practice of NSICAP. The present study suggested that the training program
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    The impact of human reservoir of malaria at a community-level on individual malaria occurrence in a low malaria transmission setting along the Thai-Myanmar border
    (2010-05) Saranath Lawpoolsri; สารนาถ ล้อพูลศรี; Chavez, Irwin F.; Surapon Yimsamran; สุรพล ยิ้มสำราญ; Supalap Puangsa-art; สุภลาภ พวงสอาด; Nipon Thanyavanich; นิพนธ์ ธัญญวานิช; Wanchai Maneeboonyang; Wuthichai Chaimungkun; Pratap Singhasivanon; ประตาป สิงหศิวานนท์; Maguire, James H.; Hungerford, Laura L.; Saranath Lawpoolsri; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Department of Tropical Hygiene
    persons in a previous month resulted in 1.14 and 1.34 times increase in the risk of P. falciparum and P. vivax, respectively, among individuals in a particular hamlet. CONCLUSION: In a small area with low malaria transmission intensity, the variation... in mosquito abundance is relatively similar across the residential areas; incidence of malaria between hamlets, which reflects the community level of human infectious reservoirs, is an important predictor for the malaria risk among individuals within
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    Does Thailand Need Its Own Mathematical Model of the Influenza A (H1N1-2009) Pandemic and the Following Seasonal Influenza?
    (2011) Aronrag Cooper Meeyai; อรุณรักษ์ คูเปอร์ มีใย; Aronrag Cooper Meeyai; Mahidol university. Faculty of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology
    have taken into account the pattern of seasonality of influenza transmission in the tropics. Because of these and other factors, there is a need to evaluate influenza vaccination strategies in light of the unique conditions faced in Thailand
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    Chikungunya virus infection of cell lines: Analysis of the East, Central and South African lineage
    (2012) Nitwara Wikan; Prirayapak Sakoonwatanyoo; Sukathida Ubol; Sutee Yoksan; Duncan R. Smith; Mahidol University. Institute of Molecular Biosciences; Mahidol University. Faculty of Science. Department of Microbiology
    of the disease has been driven by the emergence of an African lineage of CHIKV with enhanced transmission and dissemination in Aedes mosquito hosts. Two main genotypes of this lineage have been circulating, characterized by the presence of a substitution of a...Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging mosquito borne alphavirus that has caused large scale epidemics in the countries around the Indian Ocean, as well as leading to autochthonous transmission in some European countries. The transmission
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    Duration of shedding of respiratory syncytial virus in a community study of Kenyan children
    (2010-01-22) Okiro, Emelda A.; White, Lisa J.; Ngama, Mwanajuma; Cane, Patricia A.; Medley, Graham F.; Nokes, D James; Okiro, Emelda A.; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine
    BACKGROUND: Our understanding of the transmission dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection will be better informed with improved data on the patterns of shedding in cases not limited only to hospital admissions. METHODS: In a... in RSV transmission in the community.
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    Emergence of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations among antiretroviral-naïve HIV-1-infected patients after rapid scaling up of antiretroviral therapy in Thailand
    (2012) Somnuek Sungkanuparph; Chonlaphat Sukasem; Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul; Ekawat Pasomsub; Wasun Chantratita; Mahidol University. Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital. Division of Infectious Diseases
    failure in patients with primary HIV-1 drug resistance. Interventions to prevent the transmission of HIV-1 drug resistance and continuation of surveillance for primary HIV-1 drug resistance in Thailand are indicated.
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    Essential epidemiological mechanisms underpinning the transmission dynamics of seasonal influenza
    (2012) James Truscott; Christophe Fraser; Simon Cauchemez; Aronrag Meeyai; Wes Hinsley; Christl A. Donnelly; Azra Ghani; Neil Ferguson; อรุณรักษ์ คูเปอร์ มีใย; Mahidol university. Faculty of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology
    strain, which we estimate is between 3 and 8 years. Seasonal variation in transmissibility is largely confined to 15-30% of its mean value. While population heterogeneity and cross-immunity are required mechanisms, the degree of heterogeneity and cross
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    Clustering of antimicrobial resistance outbreaks across bacterial species in the intensive care unit.
    (2013-07) Vlek, Anne L. M.; Cooper, Ben S.; Kypraios, Theodore; Cox, Andy; Edgeworth, Jonathan D.; Auguet, Olga Tosas; Vlek, Anne L. M.; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit.
    BACKGROUND: There are frequent reports of intensive care unit (ICU) outbreaks due to transmission of particular antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Less is known about the burden of outbreaks of resistance due to horizontal transfer of mobile genetic... in 2 adjacent ICUs and to look for evidence of clustering of resistance outbreaks consistent with interspecies transmission of resistance elements. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of data from 2 adjacent 15-bed adult ICUs between 2002 and 2009