Professor Jeremy Day
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Central nervous system and HIV infections in Vietnam

Brain infections such as meningitis and encephalitis are highly debilitating diseases, and an accurate diagnostic is essential to give patients the best treatment available. For cryptococcal meningitis, clinical trials focus on prevention, for an early diagnosis, and novel ways to use existing treatments or repurpose old drugs.
Research groups
Jeremy Day
Professor of Infectious Diseases
CNS and HIV Infections
In the CNS-HIV infections research group we run a programme of science driven by randomized controlled trials powered to relevant and easily understandable clinical endpoints. The main areas of interest are opportunistic infections including cryptococcosis and penicilliosis, TB meningitis, acute bacterial meningitis, encephalitis and HIV drug resistance. In addition to improving patient outcomes, we are interested in innovative approaches to clinical trial design, health economics, ecology, epidemiology and determinants of pathogenicity of the organisms we study.
Recent publications
Comparative Effectiveness of Regimens for Drug-Susceptible Tuberculous Meningitis in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Aggregate-Level Data Meta-Analysis.
Journal article
Sulis G. et al, (2022), Open forum infectious diseases, 9
spirin in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
Journal article
Abani O. et al, (2022), The Lancet, 399, 143 - 151
zole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus is highly prevalent in the environment of Vietnam, with marked variability by land use type.
Journal article
Duong T-MN. et al, (2021), Environmental microbiology, 23, 7632 - 7642
ntifungal Susceptibility Does Not Correlate With Fungal Clearance or Survival in AIDS-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis.
Journal article
O'Connor L. et al, (2021), Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 73, e2338 - e2341
n open label randomized controlled trial of tamoxifen combined with amphotericin B and fluconazole for cryptococcal meningitis
Journal article
Ngan NTT. et al, (2021), eLife, 10
djunctive treatments for the management of septic shock – a narrative review of the current evidence
Journal article
Donovan K. et al, (2021), Anaesthesia, 76, 1245 - 1258