Kumnuan Ungchusak

Summary

Affiliation: Ministry of Public Health
Country: Thailand

Publications

  1. ncbi Reduction in mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Thailand, 2001-2003: Results from population-based surveillance in six provinces
    Tanarak Plipat
    Bureau of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
    AIDS 21:145-51. 2007
  2. ncbi The need for global planned mobilization of essential medicine: lessons from a massive Thai botulism outbreak
    K Ungchusak
    Department of Diseases Control, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand
    Bull World Health Organ 85:238-40. 2007
  3. ncbi Probable person-to-person transmission of avian influenza A (H5N1)
    Kumnuan Ungchusak
    Bureau of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Thai Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    N Engl J Med 352:333-40. 2005
  4. ncbi Lessons learned from influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic response in Thailand
    Kumnuan Ungchusak
    Bureau of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    Emerg Infect Dis 18:1058-64. 2012
  5. ncbi Human disease from influenza A (H5N1), Thailand, 2004
    Tawee Chotpitayasunondh
    Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok, Thailand
    Emerg Infect Dis 11:201-9. 2005
  6. ncbi Apoptosis and pathogenesis of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in humans
    Mongkol Uiprasertkul
    Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
    Emerg Infect Dis 13:708-12. 2007
  7. ncbi Incidence, seasonality and mortality associated with influenza pneumonia in Thailand: 2005-2008
    James Mark Simmerman
    International Emerging Infections Program, Thailand Ministry of Public Health United States Centers for Disease Control Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    PLoS ONE 4:e7776. 2009
  8. ncbi Low frequency of infection with avian influenza virus (H5N1) among poultry farmers, Thailand, 2004
    Soawapak Hinjoy
    Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    Emerg Infect Dis 14:499-501. 2008
  9. ncbi Severe human influenza infections in Thailand: oseltamivir treatment and risk factors for fatal outcome
    Wanna Hanshaoworakul
    Bureau of Epidemiology, Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    PLoS ONE 4:e6051. 2009
  10. ncbi Containing pandemic influenza at the source
    Ira M Longini
    Department of Biostatistics, The Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, N E, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    Science 309:1083-7. 2005

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Publications15

  1. ncbi Reduction in mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Thailand, 2001-2003: Results from population-based surveillance in six provinces
    Tanarak Plipat
    Bureau of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
    AIDS 21:145-51. 2007
    ..In 2000, Thailand implemented a national program to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT)...
  2. ncbi The need for global planned mobilization of essential medicine: lessons from a massive Thai botulism outbreak
    K Ungchusak
    Department of Diseases Control, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand
    Bull World Health Organ 85:238-40. 2007
  3. ncbi Probable person-to-person transmission of avian influenza A (H5N1)
    Kumnuan Ungchusak
    Bureau of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Thai Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    N Engl J Med 352:333-40. 2005
    ..No evidence of efficient person-to-person transmission has yet been reported. We investigated possible person-to-person transmission in a family cluster of the disease in Thailand...
  4. ncbi Lessons learned from influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic response in Thailand
    Kumnuan Ungchusak
    Bureau of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    Emerg Infect Dis 18:1058-64. 2012
    ..The experience in Thailand may be applicable to other countries and settings, and the lessons learned may help strengthen responses to other pandemics or comparable prolonged public health emergencies...
  5. ncbi Human disease from influenza A (H5N1), Thailand, 2004
    Tawee Chotpitayasunondh
    Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok, Thailand
    Emerg Infect Dis 11:201-9. 2005
    ....
  6. ncbi Apoptosis and pathogenesis of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in humans
    Mongkol Uiprasertkul
    Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
    Emerg Infect Dis 13:708-12. 2007
    ..Whether observed apoptotic cells were a direct result of the viral replication or a consequence of an overactivation of the immune system requires further studies...
  7. ncbi Incidence, seasonality and mortality associated with influenza pneumonia in Thailand: 2005-2008
    James Mark Simmerman
    International Emerging Infections Program, Thailand Ministry of Public Health United States Centers for Disease Control Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    PLoS ONE 4:e7776. 2009
    ..Prospective data from multiple years are needed to develop vaccine policy and treatment guidelines, and improve pandemic preparedness...
  8. ncbi Low frequency of infection with avian influenza virus (H5N1) among poultry farmers, Thailand, 2004
    Soawapak Hinjoy
    Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    Emerg Infect Dis 14:499-501. 2008
    ..No study participant met the World Health Organization serologic criteria for confirmed infection...
  9. ncbi Severe human influenza infections in Thailand: oseltamivir treatment and risk factors for fatal outcome
    Wanna Hanshaoworakul
    Bureau of Epidemiology, Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
    PLoS ONE 4:e6051. 2009
    ..Thailand's National Avian Influenza Surveillance (NAIS) system affords a unique opportunity to describe the epidemiology of laboratory-confirmed severe and fatal human influenza infections...
  10. ncbi Containing pandemic influenza at the source
    Ira M Longini
    Department of Biostatistics, The Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, N E, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    Science 309:1083-7. 2005
    ..1. Combinations of targeted antiviral prophylaxis, pre-vaccination, and quarantine could contain strains with an R(0) as high as 2.4...
  11. ncbi Surveillance for avian influenza in human beings in Thailand
    Sonja J Olsen
    Lancet Infect Dis 6:757-8. 2006
  12. ncbi Panel 2.2: surveillance, early warning alert, and response: communicable and vector-borne diseases
    Collette Roure
    Prime Minister's Office, Tsunami Relief Coordination Task Force, France
    Prehospital Disaster Med 20:399-403. 2005
    ....
  13. ncbi The invisibility of the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men in Bangkok, Thailand
    Sombat Thanprasertsuk
    AIDS 19:1932-3. 2005
  14. ncbi Thailand's response to the HIV epidemic: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
    Warunee Punpanich
    Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok, Thailand
    AIDS Educ Prev 16:119-36. 2004
    ..Further strategies also need to consider the changing cultural, social, and economic characteristics of the Thai populations...
  15. ncbi Travelling waves in the occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Thailand
    Derek A T Cummings
    Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
    Nature 427:344-7. 2004
    ..This finding provides an important starting point for detecting and characterizing the key processes that contribute to the spatial-temporal dynamics of DHF in Thailand...