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Pongpun Sawatwong

Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications -  31
Citations -  3302

Pongpun Sawatwong is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pneumonia & Population. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 30 publications receiving 2315 citations. Previous affiliations of Pongpun Sawatwong include Thailand Ministry of Public Health & University of the Witwatersrand.

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Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children in 2015: a systematic review and modelling study

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- 02 Sep 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated the incidence and hospital admission rate of RSV-associated acute lower respiratory infection (RSV-ALRI) in children younger than 5 years stratified by age and World Bank income regions.
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Causes of severe pneumonia requiring hospital admission in children without HIV infection from Africa and Asia: the PERCH multi-country case-control study

TL;DR: Estimating causes of pneumonia in young African and Asian children, using novel analytical methods applied to clinical and microbiological findings, estimated that viruses accounted for 61·4% (95% credible interval [CrI] 57·3–65·6) of causes, whereas bacteria accounted for 27·3% (23·3-31·6).
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Evaluation of a newly developed lateral flow immunoassay for the diagnosis of cryptococcosis.

TL;DR: This study shows that the assay performs as well as available diagnostic methods is economical, rapid, and easy to perform; and as such can be a point of care test in resource limited settings.
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The burden of hospitalized lower respiratory tract infection due to respiratory syncytial virus in rural Thailand.

TL;DR: The incidence of hospitalized RSV lower respiratory tract illness among children <5 years was high in rural Thailand and efforts to prevent RSV infection could substantially reduce the pneumonia burden in children aged<5 years.
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Human Rhinovirus Infections in Rural Thailand: Epidemiological Evidence for Rhinovirus as Both Pathogen and Bystander

TL;DR: HRV rates were high among hospitalized children and the elderly but asymptomatic children also had substantial HRV detection and treatment or prevention modalities effective against HRV could reduce hospitalizations due to HRV in Thailand.