About Us
Infectious diseases have wreaked havoc on human communities since ancient times. More than millions died every year as a direct result of infections. And with some microorganisms showing increased resistance to current therapies, the need to develop specific tools to manage infectious outbreaks and save lives has never been greater. We are a research team based in Japan and Thailand with the aim to explore novel therapies, diagnostic tools, prognostic markers, clinical and epidemiological surveillance, and drug repurposing on infectious diseases.
Publications
2023
Correspondence
Tracing the new SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 in the community through wastewater surveillance in Bangkok, Thailand
In: The LANCET Infectious Disease
Article
COVID-19 monitoring with sparse sampling of sewered and non-sewered wastewater in urban and rural communities
In: iScience
Short Communication
Multiple traces of monkeypox detected in non-sewered wastewater with sparse sampling from a densely populated metropolitan area in Asia
In: Science of The Total Environment
Our Team
Principle Investigator
Dr. Dhammika Leshan Wannigama
Department of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan
Dr. Shuichi Abe
Department of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan
Research Assistants/ Students
Dr. Chanikan Tanasatitchai
Dr. Sinthu Kosasih
Porames Vatanaprasan
Collaborators
- Dr. Anthony Kicic University of Western Australia
- Dr. Mohan Amarasiri Kitasato University, Japan
- Dr. Alexander D. McLellan University of Otago, New Zealand
- Dr. PhatthranitPhattharapornjaroen Mahidol University, Thailand
- Dr. Parichart Hongsing Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand
- Dr. Angkana T. Huang Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Thailand
- Dr. Naveen Kumar DevangaRagupathi Christian Medical College, India
- Dr. Stephen M Stick Perth Children’s Hospital, Nedlands, Australia.
- Dr. Paul G. Higgins University of Cologne, Germany
- Dr. Tanittha Chatsuwan Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- Dr. Charin Modchang Mahidol University, Thailand
- Dr. Cameron Hurst Charles Darwin University, Australia
- Dr. Phitsanuruk Kanthawee Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand
- Dr. Daisuke Sano Tohoku University, Japan
What We Are Working On
- Infectious disease surveillance and new therapy development
- Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance
- Climate change impact on infectious diseases
- New antibiotic development
- Dynamics of chronic respiratory infections
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