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researchers trained at TDR:
During 3-7 October 2011, two researchers from National Institute of Public
Health, Lao PDR (Dr.YouthanavanhVonghajack and Dr.BounthunhChongvilay) and
Miss PhungThiLuyen from National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology,
Vietnam who is currently a Master degree student at KKU were trained in
diagnosis of opisthorchiasis in intermediate hosts at Tropical Disease
Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, KKU.
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TDR recruited several foreign staff and students this year:
TDR Lab recruited several staff and students to join our laboratory
and field works on neglected tropical diseases in this fiscal year
2011. These include Dr. Yuji Arimatsu (a Post-doc, Japan), Salma
Teimoori Zendehdel (Iran), Phung Thi Luyen (Vietnam), Sakhone
Lamanivong (Lao PDR) and Christina Kim, an exchange research student
from Ohio State University. We will also have two more exchange
research students from the University of Queensland, Australia and
the University of California at Berkeley by early next year 2012.
They all will have more experience in tropical disease research from
bench to community.
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KhonKaenUniversity (KKU) scientists rank top in tropical diseases in Asia: A recent presentation on Thai university competencies—reported by YukunHarsono, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Elsevier Inc., at the 4th QS University Rankings and Evaluation Workshop held in Singapore (November, 2010)—revealed that most of the publications from Thai universities (based on Scopus, 2008) were in Biology and Infectious diseases, which can be further categorized into: Parasitology (61.4%), Tropical Medicine (35.3%) and Ethnopharmacology (3.2%).
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|  |  Concerted action against liver flukes: Banchob Sripa from Tropical Disease Research Laboratory (TDR) expresses his viewpoint on the neglect of liver flukes and liver cancer in Asia in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2008). Despite the high prevalence of liver fluke infection and the world highest incidence of liver cancer in this region but it appears that the diseases are neglected by health research communities and granting agencies.
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|  | Banchob Sripa and colleagues published a paper on “Liver fluke induces cholangiocarcinoma” in PLoS Medicine (2007). The review highlights epidemiology of liver fluke and liver cancer in Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis in Thailand and update mechanisms of liver fluke induced cholangiocarcinoma. Future research on the two related diseases is also noted. This is the most update on liver fluke and cancer published.
For detail, please see full text. |  | Approximately 5,000 randomly selected cDNAs from the adult stage of O. viverrini were characterized and accounted for 1,932 contigs, representing ~14% of the entire transcriptome, and, presently, the largest sequence dataset for any species of liver fluke deposited in GenBank. Thewarch Laha and colleagues published the article on “Gene discovery for the carcinogenic liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini” in BMC Genomics (2007).
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| | TDR Field Sites | TDR Contact |  | Dr. Polly Sager, Assistant Director for International Research on Infectious Diseases, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH and team visited Khon Kaen for site assessment in August 2005. |  | Dr. Malla Rao, Program Officer of International Collaboration in Infectious Disease Research (ICIDR), NIAID, NIH site visited Khon Kaen in September 2006 to move up the field work. |
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Division of Experimental Pathology
Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine
Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002
THAILAND | | Website: | ttp://tdr.kku.ac.th | | Telephone: | 66-43-363116, 66-43-204359 | | Fax: | 66-43-202024 | | E-mail: | tdr@kku.ac.th |
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