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Somsak Thamthitiwat
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 49
Citations - 3774
Somsak Thamthitiwat 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 20, co-authored 46 publications receiving 2645 citations. Previous affiliations of Somsak Thamthitiwat include University of the Witwatersrand & Thailand Ministry of Public Health.
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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
Ting Shi,David A. McAllister,Katherine L. O'Brien,Eric A. F. Simões,Shabir A. Madhi,Bradford D. Gessner,Fernando P. Polack,Evelyn Balsells,Sozinho Acácio,Claudia Aguayo,Issifou Alassani,Asad Ali,Martin Antonio,Shally Awasthi,Juliet O. Awori,Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner,Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner,Henry C. Baggett,Vicky L. Baillie,Angel Balmaseda,Alfredo Barahona,Sudha Basnet,Sudha Basnet,Quique Bassat,Quique Bassat,Wilma Basualdo,Godfrey Bigogo,Louis Bont,Robert F. Breiman,W. Abdullah Brooks,W. Abdullah Brooks,Shobha Broor,Nigel Bruce,Dana Bruden,Philippe Buchy,Stuart Campbell,Phyllis Carosone-Link,Mandeep S. Chadha,James Chipeta,Monidarin Chou,Wilfrido Clara,Cheryl Cohen,Cheryl Cohen,Elizabeth de Cuellar,Duc Anh Dang,Budragchaagiin Dash-Yandag,Maria Deloria-Knoll,Mukesh Dherani,Tekchheng Eap,Bernard E. Ebruke,Marcela Echavarria,Carla Cecília de Freitas Lázaro Emediato,Rodrigo Fasce,Daniel R. Feikin,Luzhao Feng,Angela Gentile,Aubree Gordon,Doli Goswami,Doli Goswami,Sophie Goyet,Michelle J. Groome,Natasha B. Halasa,Siddhivinayak Hirve,Nusrat Homaira,Nusrat Homaira,Stephen R. C. Howie,Stephen R. C. Howie,Stephen R. C. Howie,Jorge Jara,Imane Jroundi,Cissy B. Kartasasmita,Najwa Khuri-Bulos,Karen L. Kotloff,Anand Krishnan,Romina Libster,Romina Libster,Olga Lopez,Marilla G. Lucero,Florencia Lución,Socorro Lupisan,Debora N. Marcone,John P. McCracken,Mario Mejia,Jennifer C. Moïsi,Joel M. Montgomery,David P. Moore,Cinta Moraleda,Jocelyn Moyes,Jocelyn Moyes,Patrick K. Munywoki,Patrick K. Munywoki,Kuswandewi Mutyara,Mark P. Nicol,D. James Nokes,D. James Nokes,Pagbajabyn Nymadawa,Maria Tereza da Costa Oliveira,Histoshi Oshitani,Nitin Pandey,Gláucia Paranhos-Baccalà,Lia Neu Phillips,Valentina Picot,Mustafizur Rahman,Mala Rakoto-Andrianarivelo,Zeba A Rasmussen,Barbara Rath,Annick Robinson,Candice Romero,Graciela Russomando,Vahid Salimi,Pongpun Sawatwong,Nienke M Scheltema,Brunhilde Schweiger,J. Anthony G. Scott,J. Anthony G. Scott,Phil Seidenberg,Kunling Shen,Rosalyn J. Singleton,Rosalyn J. Singleton,Viviana Sotomayor,Tor A. Strand,Tor A. Strand,Agustinus Sutanto,Mariam Sylla,Milagritos D. Tapia,Somsak Thamthitiwat,Elizabeth Thomas,Rafal Tokarz,Claudia Turner,Marietjie Venter,Sunthareeya Waicharoen,Jianwei Wang,Wanitda Watthanaworawit,Lay-Myint Yoshida,Hongjie Yu,Heather J. Zar,Harry Campbell,Harish Nair,Harish Nair +138 more
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
Katherine L. O'Brien,Henry C. Baggett,W. Abdullah Brooks,Daniel R. Feikin,Laura L. Hammitt,Melissa M. Higdon,Stephen R. C. Howie,Maria Deloria Knoll,Karen L. Kotloff,Orin S. Levine,Shabir A. Madhi,David R. Murdoch,Christine Prosperi,J. Anthony G. Scott,Qiyuan Shi,Donald M. Thea,Zhenke Wu,Scott L. Zeger,Peter V. Adrian,Pasakorn Akarasewi,Trevor P. Anderson,Martin Antonio,Juliet O. Awori,Vicky L. Baillie,Charatdao Bunthi,James Chipeta,Mohammod Jobayer Chisti,Jane Crawley,Andrea DeLuca,Amanda J. Driscoll,Bernard E. Ebruke,Hubert P. Endtz,Nicholas Fancourt,Wei Fu,Doli Goswami,Michelle J. Groome,Meredith Haddix,Lokman Hossain,Yasmin Jahan,E Wangeci Kagucia,Alice Kamau,Ruth A. Karron,Sidi Kazungu,Nana Kourouma,Locadiah Kuwanda,Geoffrey Kwenda,Mengying Li,Eunice M. Machuka,Grant A. Mackenzie,Nasreen Mahomed,Susan A. Maloney,Jessica McLellan,Joanne L. Mitchell,David P. Moore,Susan C. Morpeth,Azwifarwi Mudau,Lawrence Mwananyanda,James Mwansa,Micah Silaba Ominde,Uma Onwuchekwa,Daniel E. Park,Julia Rhodes,Pongpun Sawatwong,Phil Seidenberg,Arifin Shamsul,Eric A. F. Simões,Seydou Sissoko,Somwe Wa Somwe,Samba O. Sow,Mamadou Sylla,Boubou Tamboura,Milagritos D. Tapia,Somsak Thamthitiwat,Aliou Toure,Nora L. Watson,Khalequ Zaman,Syed M. A. Zaman +76 more
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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Global burden of respiratory infections associated with seasonal influenza in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study.
Xin Wang,You Li,Katherine L. O'Brien,Shabir A. Madhi,Marc-Alain Widdowson,Marc-Alain Widdowson,Peter Byass,Saad B. Omer,Qalab Abbas,Asad Ali,Alberta Amu,Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner,Quique Bassat,W. Abdullah Brooks,Sandra S. Chaves,Alexandria Chung,Cheryl Cohen,Marcela Echavarria,Rodrigo Fasce,Angela Gentile,Aubree Gordon,Michelle J. Groome,Terho Heikkinen,Siddhivinayak Hirve,Jorge Jara,Mark A. Katz,Mark A. Katz,Mark A. Katz,Najwa Khuri-Bulos,Anand Krishnan,Oscar de Leon,Marilla G. Lucero,John P. McCracken,Ainara Mira-Iglesias,Jennifer C. Moïsi,Patrick K. Munywoki,Millogo Ourohiré,Fernando P. Polack,Manveer Rahi,Zeba A Rasmussen,Barbara Rath,Samir K. Saha,Eric A. F. Simões,Eric A. F. Simões,Viviana Sotomayor,Somsak Thamthitiwat,Florette K. Treurnicht,Marylene Wamukoya,Lay-Myint Yoshida,Heather J. Zar,Harry Campbell,Harish Nair +51 more
TL;DR: The findings provide new and important evidence for maternal and paediatric influenza immunisation, and should inform future immunisation policy particularly in low-income and lower-middle-income countries.
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Global respiratory syncytial virus-associated mortality in young children (RSV GOLD): a retrospective case series
Nienke M Scheltema,Angela Gentile,Florencia Lución,D. James Nokes,D. James Nokes,Patrick K. Munywoki,Patrick K. Munywoki,Shabir A. Madhi,Michelle J. Groome,Cheryl Cohen,Jocelyn Moyes,Kentigern Thorburn,Somsak Thamthitiwat,Hitoshi Oshitani,Socorro Lupisan,Aubree Gordon,José F Sánchez,Katherine L. O'Brien,Bradford D. Gessner,Agustinus Sutanto,Asuncion Mejias,Asuncion Mejias,Octavio Ramilo,Octavio Ramilo,Najwa Khuri-Bulos,Natasha B. Halasa,Fernanda de-Paris,Márcia Rosane Pires,Michael C. Spaeder,Bosco Paes,Eric A. F. Simões,Ting Fan Leung,Maria Tereza da Costa Oliveira,Carla Cecília de Freitas Lázaro Emediato,Quique Bassat,Warwick Butt,Warwick Butt,Hsin Chi,Uzma Bashir Aamir,Asad Ali,Marilla G. Lucero,Rodrigo Fasce,Olga Lopez,Barbara Rath,Fernando P. Polack,Jesse Papenburg,Srđan Roglić,Hisato Ito,Edward Goka,Diederick E. Grobbee,Harish Nair,Louis Bont +51 more
TL;DR: The results show that perinatal immunisation strategies for children aged younger than 6 months could have a substantial impact on RSV-related child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries.
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Incidence, seasonality and mortality associated with influenza pneumonia in Thailand: 2005-2008.
James Mark Simmerman,Malinee Chittaganpitch,Jens W. Levy,Somrak Chantra,Susan A. Maloney,Timothy M. Uyeki,Peera Areerat,Somsak Thamthitiwat,Sonja J. Olsen,Alicia M. Fry,Kumnuan Ungchusak,Henry C. Baggett,Supamit Chunsuttiwat +12 more
TL;DR: The findings support a recent Thailand Ministry of Public Health decision to extend annual influenza vaccination to older adults and suggest that children should also be targeted for routine vaccination.