Publications by authors named "Hie-Ung Ngian"
This study evaluated the acceptability and tolerability of three alcohol-based hand rubs (ABHRs) at Sarawak General Hospital, Malaysia. Conducted from 12-26 November 2021 using a modified WHO Protocol, it involved a survey among health workers and concessionaires, with a 35% response rate (1,598 of 4,628 participants). The majority were nurses (60.
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- Sarawak General Hospital, the only public tertiary referral center in Sarawak, implemented a hybrid model to care for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, which led to challenges due to health-care workers also contracting the virus.
- To combat the rise in infections among healthcare staff, the hospital initiated a mass screening strategy to minimize in-hospital transmission and protect the workforce from further quarantine-related staffing issues.
- The study evaluates the effectiveness of this screening approach over five weeks, considering its implications on healthcare delivery, especially for non-COVID-19 patients in a resource-limited setting, and aims to inform future strategies for managing hybrid hospital systems.
Background: Melioidosis is a serious, and potentially fatal community-acquired infection endemic to northern Australia and Southeast Asia, including Sarawak, Malaysia. The disease, caused by the usually intrinsically aminoglycoside-resistant Burkholderia pseudomallei, most commonly affects adults with predisposing risk factors. There are limited data on pediatric melioidosis in Sarawak.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfections of humans with the zoonotic simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi occur throughout Southeast Asia, although most cases have occurred in Malaysia, where P. knowlesi is now the dominant malaria species. This apparently skewed distribution prompted an investigation of the phylogeography of this parasite in 2 geographically separated regions of Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Plasmodium knowlesi is a simian parasite that has been recognized as the fifth species causing human malaria. Naturally-acquired P. knowlesi infection is widespread among human populations in Southeast Asia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMisidentifications of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Burkholderia cepacia by Vitek 2 have occurred. Multidimensional scaling ordination of biochemical profiles of 217 Malaysian and Australian B. pseudomallei isolates found clustering of misidentified B.
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