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Communicable Diseases Agency
KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH)

Clinical Associate Professor Matthias Maiwald

Research domain: Clinical Microbiology

Affiliations

  • Head (Microbiology Service) and Senior Consultant, Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore

  • Clinical Associate Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Pathology Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Current areas of interest

  • Molecular biology of fastidious difficult-to-diagnose microorganisms (e.g. Whipple's disease bacterium, Tropheryma whipplei)

  • Infection prevention and control and hospital epidemiology, with an emphasis on hand hygiene in healthcare settings, skin antisepsis, and prevention of infections in surgery

  • Infections relevant to women’s and children’s health (e.g. molecular diagnosis and characterisation of Bordetella pertussis, the agent of whooping cough)

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