Thomas Crellen
I'm a postgraduate researcher working in the Bacterial Resistance Analysis Group in the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok, Thailand. My project focusses on determining risk factors for acquisition of drug resistant bacteria among neonates in a Cambodian hospital. The main organism in both carriage and blood stream infections was Klebsiella pneumoniae, we have sequenced over 300 isolates and aim to use the whole genome data to reconstruct transmission networks within the ward.
Prior to starting at MORU I worked as a field epidemiologist for Médecins Sans Frontières in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
My PhD was at Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, focussing on the genomics and epidemiology of Schistosoma mansoni, a neglected tropical disease.
A link to my publications: https://scholar.google.co.th/citations?user=Y_b9Ti8AAAAJ&hl=en
Recent publications
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Engagement and adherence trade-offs for SARS-CoV-2 contact tracing
Journal article
Lucas TCD. et al, (2020)
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Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 with Waning Immunity in the UK Population
Journal article
Crellen T. et al, (2020)
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An imperfect tool: COVID-19 'test & trace' success relies on minimising the impact of false negatives and continuation of physical distancing.
Journal article
Davis EL. et al, (2020)
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Dissemination routes of the carbapenem resistance plasmid pOXA-48 in a hospital setting
Journal article
León-Sampedro R. et al, (2020)
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Seasonal upsurge of pneumococcal meningitis in the Central African Republic
Journal article
Crellen T. et al, (2019)