Dr David AB Dance
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Bacterial infections in Laos
Laos is seing a growing number of melioidosis, a bacterial infection caused by a bacterium that lived in the environment. Meliolidosis is a disease greatly under-recognised and treatment is specific, making it a major threat to farmers in developing countries. A better understanding of the prevalence of this infection and how it spreads allows us to better target prevention and treatment.
David Dance
Clinical Microbiologist
- Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine
LOMWRU
David Dance is a Clinical Microbiologist supporting the work of LOMWRU (Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital Wellcome Research Unit) on bacterial infections of importance to public health in Laos.
He is particularly interested in all aspects of melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei infection), especially gaining a greater understanding of the global distribution of the disease and the environmental factors that underpin its distribution.
Other interests include:
- aetiology of bacteraemia, pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis
- antimicrobial resistance
- typhoid and other Salmonella and Shigella infections
- streptococcal infections, including pneumococci, Strep. suis and and Group A streptococci.
Recent publications
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Identification of Burkholderia cepacia strains that express a Burkholderia pseudomallei-like capsular polysaccharide.
Journal article
Burtnick MN. et al, (2024), Microbiol Spectr, 12
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Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria in ornamental fish tanks, Vientiane, Laos, 2023
Journal article
Venkatesan T. et al, (2024), Emerging Infectious Diseases, 30, 599 - 600
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Detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in hospitalized children with pneumonia in Laos
Journal article
Vilivong K. et al, (2023), Wellcome Open Research, 8, 533 - 533
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The highly diverse plasmid population found in Escherichia coli colonizing travellers to Laos and its role in antimicrobial resistance gene carriage.
Journal article
Snaith AE. et al, (2023), Microb Genom, 9
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Melioidosis in Global Perspective and Challenges for Surveillance
Chapter
Dance DAB., (2023), Clinical Melioidosis, 1 - 8