Myint Khin

Head of Emerging Virus Research Unit

Qualification:

• M.B.B.S (Institute of Medicine, Yangon)
• D.T.M.H. (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
• PhD. (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Dr. Myint received her M.D. from Institute of Medicine, Yangoon, Myanmar and obtained her PhD from University of Liverpool, UK. She is currently a clinical virologist and the Head of EVRU at the Eijkman Institute. Prior working with the Eijkman Institute, Dr. Myint works in Virology Department at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok for 22 years. Her special interest is in capacity building, research and characterization of arboviruses and has worked extensively with hepatitis E, influenza, leptospirosis and in the field of pathogen discovery. She has conducted human, animal, and laboratory studies on the transmission and pathogenesis of viral diseases.

E-mail: khinsawying@hotmail.com / myintk@eijkman.go.id

Publications

1. Echovirus-7 Infection in Children with Unusual Severe Manifestation: A Case Report.
   Infect Chemother. 2021 Mar;53(1):141-145. doi: 10.3947/ic.2020.0081.
   PubMed
2. Detection of dengue virus serotype 1 in central nervous system of a child in Bandung, West Java: A case report.
   SAGE Open Med Case Rep. 2021 Jul 23;9:2050313X211034393. doi: 10.1177/2050313X211034393. eCollection 2021.
   PubMed
3. Comparative cytokine profiling identifies common and unique serum cytokine responses in acute chikungunya and dengue virus infection.
   BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Jul 2;21(1):639. doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06339-6.
   PubMed
4. Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Zika Virus Transmission in Indonesia: Serosurveillance Data from a Pediatric Population.
   Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 May 3. pii: tpmd210010. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0010.
   PubMed
5. An investig-ation into the epidemiology of chikungunya virus across neglected regions of Indonesia.
   PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Dec 21;14(12):e0008934. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008934. eCollection 2020 Dec.
   PubMed
6. Japanese encephalitis virus infection in non-encephalitic acute febrile illness patients.
   PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Jul 14;14(7):e0008454. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008454. eCollection 2020 Jul.
   PubMed
7. Rickettsia felis identified in two fatal cases of acute meningoencephalitis.
   PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Feb 18;14(2):e0007893. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007893.
   PubMed
8. Assessment of a multiplex PCR and Nanopore-based method for dengue virus sequencing in Indonesia.
   Virol J. 2020 Feb 13;17(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s12985-020-1294-6.
   PubMed
9. Absence of Evidence of Zika Virus Infection in Cord Blood and Urine from Newborns with Congenital Abnormalities, Indonesia.
   Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Feb 10. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0593.
   PubMed
10. Detection of Multiple Viral Sequences in the Respiratory Tract Samples of Suspected MERS-CoV Patients in Jakarta, Indonesia 2015-2016.
    Int J Infect Dis. 2019 Jun 22. pii: S1201-9712(19)30267-X. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2019.06.022.
    PubMed
11. Birth prevalence and characteristics of congenital cytomegalovirus infection in an urban birth cohort, Jakarta, Indonesia.
    Int J Infect Dis. 2019 Jun 14. pii: S1201-9712(19)30254-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2019.06.009.
    PubMed
12. Detection of central nervous system viral infections in adults in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
    PLoS One. 2018 Nov 16;13(11):e0207440. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207440. eCollection 2018.
    PubMed
13. Presentation, etiology, and outcome of brain infections in an Indonesian hospital: A cohort study.
    Neurol Clin Pract. 2018 Oct;8(5):379-388. doi: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000517.
    PubMed
14. Zika Virus Seropositivity in 1-4-Year-Old Children, Indonesia, 2014.
    Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Sep;24(9). doi: 10.3201/eid2409.180582.
    PubMed
15. Dengue infection in international travellers visiting Bali, Indonesia.
    J Travel Med. 2018 Aug 1;25(1). pii: 5065180. doi: 10.1093/jtm/tay061.
    PubMed
16. Characterization of rhinovirus C from a 4-year-old boy with acute onset dilated cardiomyopathy in Jakarta, Indonesia.
    JMM Case Rep. 2018 Feb 1;5(9):e005139. doi: 10.1099/jmmcr.0.005139. eCollection 2018 Sep.
    PubMed
17. Genomic characterization of Zika virus isolated from Indonesia.
    Virology. 2017 Jul 26;510:248-251. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2017.07.026.
    PubMed
18. Chikungunya fever outbreak identified in North Bali, Indonesia.
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Jul 1;111(7):325-327. doi: 10.1093/trstmh/trx054.
    PubMed
19. Dengue in Bali: Clinical characteristics and genetic diversity of circulating dengue viruses.
    PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 May 22;11(5):e0005483. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005483.
    PubMed
20. Occurrence of measles genotype D8 during a 2014 outbreak in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia.
    Int J Infect Dis. 2017 Jan;54:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2016.10.029. Epub 2016 Nov 4.
    PubMed
21. Detection and identification of coxsackievirus B3 from sera of an Indonesian patient with undifferentiated febrile illness.
    J Infect Dev Ctries. 2016 Aug 31;10(8):880-3. doi: 10.3855/jidc.7573.
    PubMed
22. Isolation of Zika Virus from Febrile Patient, Indonesia.
    Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 May;22(5):924-925. doi: 10.3201/eid2205.151915.
    PubMed
23. West Nile virus documented in Indonesia from acute febrile illness specimens.
    Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Feb;90(2):260-2. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0445. Epub 2014 Jan 13.
    PubMed