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.
Recent publications
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Etiology of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in Tertiary-Care Hospitals in Thailand: A Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort Study.
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Rongrungruang Y. et al, (2025), Infect Drug Resist, 18, 351 - 361
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Diabetes and risk of hospitalisation due to infection in northeastern Thailand: Retrospective cohort study using population-based healthcare service data.
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Peerawaranun P. et al, (2024), Diabet Med
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Prognostic accuracy of screening tools for clinical deterioration in adults with suspected sepsis in northeastern Thailand: a cohort validation study
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Wixon-Genack J. et al, (2024), Open Forum Infectious Diseases
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Plasma Metabolomics Reveals Distinct Biological and Diagnostic Signatures for Melioidosis.
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Xia L. et al, (2023), Am J Respir Crit Care Med
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Enhanced bedside mortality prediction combining point-of-care lactate and the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score in patients hospitalised with suspected infection in southeast Asia: a cohort study.
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Wright SW. et al, (2022), Lancet Glob Health, 10, e1281 - e1288