Twenty-Year Review Finds Zoonotic NTDs Remain Hidden in Laos and Cambodia as Diagnostics and Surveillance Stay Fragmented
The article synthesises publications and long-running surveillance at the animal–human interface in Laos and Cambodia, covering Taenia solium, Trichinella, Streptococcus suis, rickettsiae, melioidosis, hepatitis E, and Japanese encephalitis. Its recurring message is diagnostic invisibility caused by limited laboratories and fragmented human–animal–environment systems, with risks embedded in smallholder livestock, informal slaughter, raw-meat consumption, wet markets, and animal-contact occupations. It proposes scaling abattoir, animal-sentinel, market, and environmental surveillance alongside livelihood-aware risk communication. This is a narrative synthesis, not a systematic review or one national survey, so it maps patterns and gaps rather than estimating current national burden.
Stuart D. Blacksell · Syseng Khounsy · Jarunee Siengsanan-Lamont · Lida Kong · Jaison B. Kolenchery · Paul N. Newton · Nicholas P. J. DayMahidol University · Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
This multi-perspective qualitative study at the SMRU tuberculosis sanatorium in Mae Ramat, Tak Province, examined why migrants choose long residential treatment. It included 37 unique patients—33 who chose the sanatorium and four who chose community DOTS—plus five health workers. Three themes organized the findings: desire for cure, barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and community and organizational support.
Thai researchersJindaporn Wirachonphaophong · Hai Ti Ti · Nay Kaw Htoo · Kanjana Winyoorat · Cha Ba · San Soe · Suphak Nosten · Htet Ko Ko Aung · Sein Sein Thi · Francois Nosten
This qualitative study examined diabetes self-care in three South Ethiopian hospital clinics. Its 21 participants comprised 12 adults with type 2 diabetes and nine healthcare providers. Patients described medication, diet, physical activity, foot care, and glucose monitoring as daily work negotiated against financial pressure, drug shortages, beliefs, food costs, limited support, and health-system constraints. Patients tended to foreground structural barriers, whereas providers placed more emphasis on knowledge and forgetting advice. Continued counselling, reliable medicines, and peer support emerged as priorities, but these are interview-derived design directions rather than tested interventions.
This comparative study examines how 336 purposively recruited respondents in Czechia, Slovakia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam understand and assess the forest bioeconomy. Respondents generally reported stronger familiarity with sustainable forest management and the circular economy than with the bioeconomy itself. Perceptions also varied across country cases, particularly within the Mekong region. A binary logistic regression identified associations between high perceived implementation and country, age, education, understanding of policy aims, support for implementation and positive assessments of forest-industry implementation. These findings describe perceptions within the recruited sample rather than national populations, and the reported associations should not be interpreted as causal effects.
Thai researchersNopparat Kaakkurivaara · Alice Sharp · Prasit Wangpakapattanawong
Researchers examined everyday practices and conditions that could enable cross-species transmission in four rural villages in Nan Province, organising findings into five interfaces: human–animal, human–environment, human-human, animal–animal, and animal–environment. The picture is not simply one of deficient knowledge. Animal contact, butchering and food preparation, water scarcity and contamination, waste, forest change, intensified agriculture, mixed-species proximity, and multilingual communication operate as a system. Community leaders and village health volunteers were viewed as trusted messengers. The study therefore recommends education that combines knowledge, skills, practical tools, and recognition of structural limits, but it neither completed nor evaluated the final intervention.
This review compares conventional acid–alkali and solvent extraction with supercritical fluids, enzymatic hydrolysis, pulsed electric fields, ultrasound, cold plasma, microwave, high-pressure processing, and deep eutectic solvents for recovering bioactives from crustacean by-products. No technology is universally optimal: conventional methods retain advantages in simplicity and maturity, while emerging methods may reduce chemicals or better preserve product quality but face equipment, cost, energy, reproducibility, and pilot-scale constraints. The paper is therefore a map of options and evidence gaps, not proof that one technology is the ‘most sustainable.’
Phetchabun’s micro-elimination programme linked fingerstick anti-HCV testing, HCV-RNA confirmation, and 12-week sofosbuvir/velpatasvir treatment through primary-care and district-hospital services across all 11 districts under universal health coverage. From 2020 to April 2026, 389,547 of 400,567 targeted people were screened (97.25%); 14,845 of 18,340 anti-HCV-reactive participants received RNA confirmation (80.94%), identifying 10,996 active infections. Of 8,961 treatment-eligible patients, 8,842 received therapy (98.67%); among 6,719 evaluated at SVR12, 6,474 were cured (96.35%). The programme demonstrates province-scale test-to-treat feasibility, but not yet the incidence or mortality reductions required for elimination.
This study linked national policy, hospital systems, and provider behaviour in Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, and Viet Nam during 2022–2023. It included 486 participants across 16 hospitals. All countries had antimicrobial-stewardship policies, but financing, enforcement, training, microbiology-data use, and inter-programme coordination were uneven. Hospitals averaged 72% on G-ASET, with tracking and reporting highest at 75% and training lowest at 66%. The two Thai hospitals scored 81.3% and 80.6% overall, yet both scored only 50% for training. These results identify actionable system gaps; they do not experimentally show that any intervention reduced antibiotic use, resistance, or mortality.
The article synthesises publications and long-running surveillance at the animal–human interface in Laos and Cambodia, covering Taenia solium, Trichinella, Streptococcus suis, rickettsiae, melioidosis, hepatitis E, and Japanese encephalitis. Its recurring message is diagnostic invisibility caused by limited laboratories and fragmented human–animal–environment systems, with risks embedded in smallholder livestock, informal slaughter, raw-meat consumption, wet markets, and animal-contact occupations. It proposes scaling abattoir, animal-sentinel, market, and environmental surveillance alongside livelihood-aware risk communication. This is a narrative synthesis, not a systematic review or one national survey, so it maps patterns and gaps rather than estimating current national burden.
Thai researchersStuart D. Blacksell · Syseng Khounsy · Jarunee Siengsanan-Lamont · Lida Kong · Jaison B. Kolenchery · Paul N. Newton · Nicholas P. J. Day
Using individual surveillance records from 2019–2021, this study examined both malaria case patterns and district factors associated with elimination across Sumatra. Of 13,386 reported cases, 71.8% were Plasmodium vivax; among 11,390 investigated cases, 15.3% were classified as imported. Multilevel models identified associations with mobile populations and clinical characteristics, while district elimination was associated with higher human development, lower historical burden, and fewer endemic neighbours. These are observational surveillance associations, not causal effects of a policy.
Thai researchersKarina D Lestari · Sri B Fajariyani · Pimphen Charoen · Saranath Lawpoolsri · Wirichada Pan-ngum
This synthesis mapped malaria evidence among migrant and mobile populations in the Greater Mekong Subregion across epidemiology, access, prevention, and health-system challenges. Of 847 records, 52 studies met inclusion criteria. Reported burden was generally low but highly variable, with hidden reservoirs from asymptomatic or submicroscopic infection in border and forest settings. Structural barriers contributed to delayed diagnosis, inconsistent prevention, and reliance on informal or cross-border care. The review exposes intervention-evaluation gaps rather than proving which approach works best.
Thai researchersPyae Linn Aung · Ajjima Thussachan · Naing Bo Bo Min · Jetsumon Sattabongkot
This Joanna Briggs Institute–guided scoping review synthesised 50 studies of resilience among family caregivers across cancer types and stages of care. The evidence was organised into risk factors, protective factors, and psychosocial or functional outcomes. Measurement tools varied substantially, and few interventions designed to strengthen family resilience had been tested empirically.
Thai researchersSiyu Yang · Xian Wang · Qing Li · Hunsa Sethabouppha
Using the Dahlem Framework, this commentary distinguishes caries control, elimination, and eradication. Global eradication is judged conceptually unattainable because caries has no single agent, interruptible transmission cycle, vaccine, or universal incidence surveillance. Elimination as a stable end to caries as a public-health problem in a defined population is presented as a plausible, measurable goal.
Thai researchersHabib Benzian
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Global Public Health
A New Record of Auricularia heimuer in Thailand: Optimal Conditions for Mycelial Growth, Inoculum Production, Cultivation Performance and a Favorable Nutritional Profile
Orientation-Dependent Daylight–Sunlight Trade-Offs in a Tropical Single-Aspect Studio Apartment: Effects of Window Configuration and Visible-Light Transmittance
Buildings
Thailand-affiliated authors
Nitchapha Naphatthakan · Narisa Noithapthim
Institutions
Walailak University
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Clinical Medicine
Long‐Term Outcomes of AV Node Ablation Plus CRT Compared to AF Catheter Ablation in Patients With AF and HFrEF
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
Thailand-affiliated authors
Natee Deepan
Institutions
Chulalongkorn University
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Environmental Engineering
Rainwater Harvesting for Urban Flood Risk Assessment: A BIM ‐ GIS Integrated Approach
Transactions in GIS
Thailand-affiliated authors
Ahsen Maqsoom · Lapyote Prasittisopin
Institutions
Chulalongkorn University
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Multidisciplinary
Opegaster plateen n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the giant mudskipper Periophthalmus schlosseri (Pallas, 1770) (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from Thailand
Chiang Mai University · Maejo University · Suranaree University of Technology · Mae Fah Luang University
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Global Public Health
Factors Associated with Malnutrition Among Bedridden Older Adults in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand: A Secondary Cross-Sectional Analysis
Medical Sciences
Thailand-affiliated authors
Sopida Thipsawat · Rachadaporn Jantasuwan
Institutions
Walailak University
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Engineering
Transcriptomics‐Driven Identification and Engineering of a Novel Lactone Esterase ( Sr LE) for Efficient Sophorolipid Lactonization in the Yeast Starmerella riodocensis
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Thailand-affiliated authors
Sirawich Sapsirisuk · Nitnipa Soontorngun
Institutions
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
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Clinical Medicine
Comprehensive Identification and Description of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups and Sub-Haplogroups in Snow Sheep (Ovis nivicola) in Support of Their Evolutionary History and Conservation
Animals
Thailand-affiliated authors
Michael N Romanov · Darren Karl Griffin
Institutions
Kasetsart University
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Multidisciplinary
Psychobiotic food systems: fermentation-derived microbes and metabolites modulating the microbiota–gut–brain axis
npj Science of Food
Thailand-affiliated authors
Muhammad Waqar
Institutions
Walailak University
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Clinical Medicine
Rapid and sensitive LC–MS/MS assay for sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine quantification in dried blood spots
Malaria Journal
Thailand-affiliated authors
Daniel Blessborn · Natpapat Kaewkhao · Joel Tärning
Institutions
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
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Environmental Engineering
Bio-Composite Progress (Part A): Advances in Mycelium-Based Composites as Sustainable Alternatives to Plastic and Foam Packaging
Kasetsart University · National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
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Clinical Medicine
Inter‐rater reliability of frozen donor liver macrovesicular steatosis assessment applying the Banff consensus method: a real‐world, multi‐specialty validation study
Histopathology
Thailand-affiliated authors
Jarukit Tantipisit
Institutions
Prince of Songkla University
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Clinical Medicine
Treatment outcomes and survival in advanced gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine carcinoma
Academia oncology.
Thailand-affiliated authors
Siraphong Putraveephong
Institutions
Khon Kaen University
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Environmental Engineering
Panduratin A and Pinostrobin Mitigate Aminated Polystyrene Microplastic-Induced Renal Injury: Evidence from In Vitro and In Vivo Studies
Princess of Naradhiwas University · Mahidol University
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Clinical Medicine
Fatal Disseminated Melioidosis Following Flood Exposure in a Patient without Overt Diabetes Mellitus or Chronic Kidney Disease: A Case Report from Southern Thailand