Pengpid, Supa Peltzer, Karl
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background The study aimed to assess chronic diseases, multimorbidity, and QoL among patients attending two different treatment settings in Thailand. Methods In all, 1409 attendees of three monk healer or three health centres were assessed with self-reported measures on chronic conditions and Quality of Life (QoL). Results Results indicate that the...
Udomwech, Lunla Phasuk, Nonthapan
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Clinical Ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)
Purpose To determine the signs associated with Demodex infestation in blepharitis patients and the rates of eyelash Demodex colonization among blepharitic patients and healthy individuals in Thailand. Patients and Methods This was a prospective, case–control clinical study. Eighty-three controls and 43 blepharitic patients were consecutively enroll...
Waleekhachonloet, Onanong Rattanachotphanit, Thananan Limwattananon, Chulaporn Thammatacharee, Noppakun Limwattananon, Supon
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Pharmacy Practice
Objective: This study examined the effects of a national policy advocating rational drug use (RDU), namely, the ‘RDU Service Plan’, starting in fiscal year 2017 and implemented by the Thai Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), on trends in antibiotic prescribing rates for outpatients. The policy was implemented subsequent to a voluntary campaign involv...
Larsson, Tomas
In the course of the 20th century, Thai political elites fashioned a religiopolitical settlement that has a great deal in common with covenantal pluralism. They did so, furthermore, by rediscovering a historic precedent in the Indian emperor Asoka, and reinterpreting the image of this paragon of Buddhist kingship so as to emphasize theological humi...
Donsamak, Sisira Weiss, Marjorie C John, Dai N
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Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)
In Thailand, antibiotics are available lawfully from community pharmacies without a prescription. Inappropriate supply of antibiotics from Thai community pharmacies to the public for common, self-limiting diseases has been reported. The study aimed to evaluate the appropriateness of antibiotics selected by community pharmacists in Thailand in respo...
Putaporntip, Chaturong Kuamsab, Napaporn Pattanawong, Urassaya Yanmanee, Surasuk Seethamchai, Sunee Jongwutiwes, Somchai
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
Among 1,180 symptomatic malaria patients, 9 (0.76%) infected with Plasmodium cynomolgi were co-infected with P. vivax (n = 7), P. falciparum (n = 1), or P. vivax and P. knowlesi (n = 1). Patients were from Tak, Chanthaburi, Ubon Ratchathani, Yala, and Narathiwat Provinces, suggesting P. cynomolgi is widespread in this country.
Chaichana, Panjaporn Jenjaroen, Kemajittra Chumseng, Suchintana Sumonwiriya, Manutsanun Rongkard, Patpong Kronsteiner, Barbara Teparrukkul, Prapit Limmathurotsakul, Direk Day, Nicholas P.J. Chantratita, Narisara
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
Melioidosis is a life-threatening infectious disease caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei . An effective vaccine is needed, but data on protective immune responses in human melioidosis are lacking. We used ELISA and an antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis assay to identify the major features of protective antibodies in...
Sintusek, Palittiya Poovorawan, Yong
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World Journal of Hepatology
BACKGROUND Infections and associated morbidity and mortality may be more frequent in children who have undergone liver transplant than in healthy children. Immunization strategies to prevent vaccine-preventable infections (VPIs) can effectively minimize this infection burden. However, data on age-appropriate immunization and VPIs in children after ...
Booton, Ross D. Meeyai, Aronrag Alhusein, Nour Buller, Henry Feil, Edward Lambert, Helen Mongkolsuk, Skorn Pitchforth, Emma Reyher, Kristen K. Sakcamduang, Walasinee
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One Health
• We present a novel mathematical model of human, animal and environment ABR transmission and ABU. • Human ABU was identified as the main driver of human ABR. • Resistance within humans was primarily driven by human activity rather than animal or environmental usage or transmission. • One Health interventions which consider human, animal and enviro...
Merville, Ophélie Puangmala, Patcharee Suksawas, Pranee Kliangpiboon, Woranut Keawvilai, Waraporn Tunkam, Chorkanikar Yama, Suvimon Sukhaphan, Usa Sathan, Somporn Marasri, Siriporn
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundAdolescents living with perinatal HIV often experience difficult living circumstances that can impact educational achievement and thus their transition to adult life. We explored their school trajectories and evaluated the contribution of perinatal HIV-infection, in Thailand, where education is free and compulsory until the age of 15.Meth...
