The MOCID interest focuses on several tropical infectious diseases that are of human health importance in Thailand, especially mosquito-borne viral infectious diseases such as dengue fever/dengue hemorrhagic fever and chikungunya fever. We focus on the development of rapid diagnosis kits for the viral diseases, and the studies of the prevalence of the viral infections in human and mosquitoes and the pathogenesis of the viruses. We would like to raise young scientists’ interest and research skills on the infectious diseases through our collaborating with Mahidol University by using clinical samples.
Our main research project
1) Epidemiology of mosquito-borne virus infections in human and mosquitoes in Thailand.
2) Generation and characterization of human and mouse monoclonal antibodies against dengue virus and chikungunya virus.
3) Development of diagnosis kits for the viral diseases.
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