| Australia - Northern Territory | Darwin | Menzies School of Health Research | Royal Darwin Hospital | Prof Bart Currie |
bart.currie@menzies.edu.au
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | |
| Bangladesh | Dhaka | Department of Microbiology Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes Endocrine Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM) | BIRDEM General Hospital | Dr Lovely Barai |
barai_lovely@yahoo.com
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | |
| Cambodia | Cambodia Calmette hospital Phnom Penh | Calmette Hospital | Infectious Diseases Unit Medicine Department | Sotharith BORY |
sotharith_bory@yahoo.com
| Available | Available | Available | - | Yes | |
| Cambodia | Siem Reap | Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit | Angkor Hospital for Children | Dr. Paul Turner |
pault@tropmedres.ac
| Available | Available | Available | - | Yes | Biosafety guidance can be done by our patent institution Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Research Unit (MORU). Other contributors: Dr. Chanpheaktra Ngoun (Director of Angkor Hospital for Children email: pheaktra@angkorhospital.org) |
| Cambodia | Cambodia Phnom Penh | Surveillance and AB stewardship | Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE Cambodia | Dr. Thong Phe |
thongphe@sihosp.org
| - | - | - | - | Yes | |
| Cambodia | Takeo | Takeo Hospital Microbiology Laboratory | Takeo Refferal Hospital | Dr. Sosorphea Seang |
sophea579@gmail.com
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | |
| Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe French West Indies | Infectious and Tropical Diseases | Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital | Dr. Bénédicte Melot |
melotb@gmail.com
| - | - | - | - | Yes | |
| India | India Manipal | Kasturba Medical College Manipal University | Kasturba Hospital | Dr. Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay |
chiranjay.m@manipal.edu
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | Alternative email of Dr. Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay is chiranjay@yahoo.co.in. For further support kindly contact www.melioidosisindia.com or mail at imrfmanipal@gmail.com |
| Laos | Vientiane | Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) | Mahosot Hospital | Prof. David Dance |
david.d@tropmedres.ac
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | LOMWRU and Mahosot Microbiology Laboratory have many years of experience of working in this field and are open to discussion about collaborations of any kind. Other contributors: Dr Manivanh Vongsouvath manivanh@tropmedres.ac |
| Laos | Laos Vientiane 3 Thadeua Road | National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology | National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology | Dr Noikaseumsy Sithivong |
noikaseumsy@gmail.com
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | The NCLE is the national reference laboratory for referral of isolates for further identification for laboratories within Lao PDR. We collaborate closely with other institutions including LOMWRU at Mahosot Hospital in relation to melioidosis. |
| Myanmar | Myanmar Yangon | Department of Medical Research | Yangon General Hospital | Dr. Mo Mo Win |
drmomowin@gmail.com
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | Culture confirmed data reported by Dr. Khwar Nyo Zin Senior Consultant Microbiologist at Yangon General Hospital. dr.knzin@gmail.com |
| Singapore | Singapore Ministry of Health | Ministry of Health Singapore | Ministry of Health Singapore | Ministry of Health SG |
https://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/home.html
| - | - | - | - | Yes | Culture confirm cases was extracted from the Ministry of Health Singapore s website: https://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/home/Publications/Reports/2016/communicable-diseases-surveillance-in-singapore-2015.html |
| Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka Colombo | Faculty of Medicine | University of Colombo | Dr Enoka Corea |
enokacorea@hotmail.com
| Available | Available | Available | - | Yes | Assist with identification of suspect strains of B. pseudomallei using latex agglutination and PCR for LPxO and YLF/BTFC perform IHA test to detect and measure the titre of antibodies. Advice clinicians on the antibiotic management of melioidosis. |
| Thailand - Central | Bangkok | Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) | Faculty of Tropical Medicine | Dr Direk Limmathurotsakul |
direk@tropmedres.ac
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | Please contact us if you need any support about melioidosis. If questions are about laboratory works you can also directly contact Vanaporn Wuthiekanun (lek@tropmedres.ac). |
| Thailand - Central | Bangkok | Thailand MOPH-US CDC Collaboration | MOPH Thailand | Dr Toni Whistler |
taw6@cdc.gov
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | Open to discussions regarding collaborations and support that can be provided |
| Thailand - Northeast | Ubon Ratchathani | Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) | Sunpasitthiprasong Hospital | Dr Direk Limmathurotsakul |
direk@tropmedres.ac
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | Please contact us if you need any support about melioidosis. Apart from Direk you can also contact Vanaporn Wuthiekanun (lek@tropmedres.ac) Maliwan Hongsuwan (maliwan@tropmedres.ac) and Pornpan Suntornsut (pornpan@tropmedres.ac) for more information. |
| Thailand - Northeast | Udon Thani | Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) | Udon Thani Hospital | Dr Direk Limmathurotsakul |
direk@tropmedres.ac
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | Please contact us if you need any support about melioidosis. Apart from Direk you can also contact Vanaporn Wuthiekanun (lek@tropmedres.ac) for more information. |
| Thailand - Northeast | Khon Kaen | Melioidosis research center Khon Kaen university | Khon Kaen Hospital | Prof Surasak Wongratanacheewin |
sura_wng@kku.ac.th
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | Happy to do research collaboration. We work on bacteriophage and biocontrol of B. pseudomallei in the environment. Approximately 250 cases/year in 2 hospitals in Khon Kaen. We have 4 000 isolates collected from NE hospitals except Ubon and Udon Thani. |
| Thailand - Northeast | Sa Kaeo | Thailand MOPH-US CDC Collaboration | Sa Kaeo Hospital | Dr Toni Whistler |
taw6@cdc.gov
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | Open to discussions regarding collaborations and support that can be provided |
| Thailand - Northeast | Nakhon Phanom | Thailand MOPH-US CDC Collaboration | Nakhon Phanom Hospital | Dr Toni Whistler |
taw6@cdc.gov
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | Open to discussions regarding collaborations and support that can be provided |
| Thailand - Northeast | Thailand Amnatcharean hospital | The Office of Disease Prevention and Control | Amnatcharean Hospital | Poonsri Sirichotiratana |
bigtoii@yahoo.com
| - | - | - | - | Yes | |
| Thailand - Northeast | Thailand Mukdahan Hospital | The Office of Disease Prevention and Control | Mukdahan Hospital | Poonsri Sirichotiratana |
bigtoii@yahoo.com
| - | - | - | - | Yes | |
| Thailand - Northeast | Thailand Sisaket hospital | The Office of Disease Prevention and Control | Sisaket Hospital | Poonsri Sirichotiratana |
bigtoii@yahoo.com
| - | - | - | - | Yes | |
| Thailand - Northeast | Thailand Yasothon Hospital | The Office of Disease Prevention and Control | Yasothon Hospital | Poonsri Sirichotiratana |
bigtoii@yahoo.com
| - | - | - | - | Yes | |
| United States of America | Washington Seattle | Research and Development Department | InBios International Inc. | Aarthy C Vallur |
aarthy@inbios.com
| Available | - | Available | - | - | |
| United States of America | Frederick Maryland | US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) | Bacteriology Division | Kei Amemiya |
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26162294
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | - | The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases will provide leading edge medical capabilities to support the mission of the Melioidosis Research Coordination Network. |
| Viet Nam | Hanoi | Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology Vietnam National University | Vietnam Type Culture Collection | Dr Trinh Thanh Trung |
tttrung@vnu.edu.vn
| Available | Available | Available | Yes | Yes | |