On April 4th, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge conducted the final dissemination meeting of the DENTHOM study (Study of dengue-like illness in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia). The aim of the study was to increase our knowledge on dengue transmission in Cambodia and immunopathology of dengue disease.
Key figures of the DENTHOM study:
- over 76,000 mosquitoes and 1400 ticks collected
- over 3300 participants included
- 5 investigators from multidisciplinary backgrounds
- 1 Post-doctoral fellow
- 5 PhD students
- 3 Masters Students
- 13 technicians, study monitors and other personnel
- 2 participating hospitals
- over a dozen presentations (oral/poster) at scientific conferences
- 6 publications and 2 more pending
Information gained by IPC scientists on dengue epidemiology, circulation of the virus, immune responses to dengue and presence of dengue vectors was shared with local stakeholders, such as the directors and staff of the participating hospitals, the provincial health department of Kampong Thom, the Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, the Cambodian CDC, and representatives of Cambodian Universities.
This meeting concludes the 5-year study funded by the NIH/NIAID in the context of the PICREID project, which is part of the CREID network (Centers of Research on Emerging Infectious Diseases).
