Investigation of fluconazole susceptibility to Candida albicans by MALDI-TOF MS and real-time PCR for CDR1, CDR2, MDR1 and ERG11.

Background: C. albicans is a pathogenic yeast that is the most common cause of fungal infections in humans. Unfortunately, the yeast's resistance to the antifungal medication fluconazole (FLC) is increasing; furthermore, testing its susceptibility to FLC by conventional methods takes time, resulting in treatment failure.

Characterization of katG, inhA, rpoB and pncA in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from MDR-TB risk patients in Thailand.

Introduction: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is commonly found in Thailand especially in the public health region 5, the Western region of Thailand. This study's aim was to characterize katG, inhA, rpoB and pncA genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Methodology: One hundred strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) were isolated from sputum samples of MDR-TB risk patients in the laboratory of the Office of Disease Prevention and Control 5th Ratchaburi province, Thailand from January to December 2015.

Prevalence of Providencia Strains among Patients with Diarrhea and in Retail Meats in Thailand.

In the present study, we examined the prevalence of Providencia spp. in retail meats and in stool samples from diarrheal patients in Thailand. Providencia-specific (Psp)-PCR amplification was positive for 58% (15/26) of the chicken, 64% (16/25) of the pork, and 68% (17/25) of the beef samples.

Colicin type 7 produced by majority of Shigella sonnei isolated from Thai patients with diarrhoea.

Thirty one out of 153 strains of Shigella sonnei isolated from Thai patients with diarrhoea showed antibacterial activity against S. sonnei by agar well diffusion method. All of them harbor plasmids with the genetic determination of colicin type 7 (Js) gene but without colicin E and colicin U gene.

A cost function analysis of shigellosis in Thailand.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop a cost function model to estimate the public treatment cost of shigellosis patients in Thailand.

Methods: This study is an incidence-based cost-of-illness analysis from a provider's perspective. The sample cases in this study were shigellosis patients residing in Kaengkhoi District, Saraburi Province, Thailand.

Estimating the burden of shigellosis in Thailand: 36-month population-based surveillance study.

Objective: To estimate incidence of shigellosis in the Kaengkhoi district, Saraburi Province, Thailand.

Methods: Population-based surveillance of shigellosis based in treatment centres. The detected rates of treated shigellosis were corrected for the number of cases missed due to the low sensitivity of microbiological culture methods and participants' use of health-care providers not participating in the study.

Preferences for treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery in Kaengkhoi district, Saraburi province, Thailand.

To estimate the proportion of cases missed in a passive surveillance study of diarrhoea and dysentery at health centres and hospitals in Kaengkhoi district, Saraburi province, Thailand, a community-based cluster survey of treatment-seeking behaviours was conducted during 21-23 June 2002. Interviews were conducted at 224 households among a study population of 78,744. The respondents reported where they sought care for diarrhoea and dysentery in children aged less than five years and adults aged over 15 years.