Dr Koukeo Phommasone
Contact information
Koukeo Phommasone
Infectious Disease Physician
- Malariologist
- Associate Research Fellow
LOMWRU
I have been working as a research physician at the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) in the Microbiology Department, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR since 2009. My work involves clinical liaison between our laboratory and hospital wards and a significant contribution to many medical research projects carried out at our Unit, such as the clinical epidemiology of melioidosis and meningitis in Laos and clinical trials of typhus treatment. My main studies deal with epidemiology of Hand, Foot and Mouth disease in Vientiane and coordinator of Expanded Fever surveillance (1) in three provinces of Laos. currently I am a PhD student registered at Amsterdam University, the Netherlands working on Targeted Malaria Elimination Project.
Recent publications
Characteristics of intensive care unit registries - findings from the Global Registry ICU Datasets (GRID) survey.
Journal article
Pisani L. et al, (2026), Critical care science, 38
Complete genomes of Rickettsia typhi reveal a clonal population
Journal article
Keeratipusana C. et al, (2025), PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 19, e0013828 - e0013828
Influenza and respiratory syncytial virus dynamics in Lao PDR during the COVID-19 pandemic: a hospital-based surveillance study.
Journal article
Phommasone K. et al, (2025), BMJ open, 15
Complete genomes of Rickettsia typhi reveal a clonal population
Preprint
Keeratipusana C. et al, (2025)
Which trial do we need? A pragmatic randomized trial of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole vs. vancomycin for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in low-resource settings.
Journal article
Recht J. et al, (2025), Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 31, 13 - 17