Research Interests

• Nosocomial infections
• Emerging infectious diseases

Representative Publications

Tambyah PA. Severe acute respiratory syndrome from the trenches, at a Singapore university hospital. Lancet Infect Dis.2004;4:690-6

Ehrlich HJ, Müller M, Oh HML, Tambyah PA, Joukhadar C, Montomoli E, Fisher DA, Berezuk G,  Fritsch S, Löw-Baselli A, Vartian N, Bobrovsky R, Pavlova BG, Pöllabauer EM, Kistner O, Barrett N. A Clinical Trial of a Whole-Virus H5N1 Vaccine Derived from Cell Culture. New Engl J Med 2008;358:2573-2584

Tambyah PA, Koay ES, Poon ML, Lin RV, Ong BK; Transfusion-Transmitted Dengue Infection Study Group. Dengue hemorrhagic fever transmitted by blood transfusion. N Engl J Med. 2008;359:1526-7

Lateef A, Fisher DA, Tambyah PA. Dengue and relative bradycardia. Emerg Infect Dis.2007;13:650-1.

Ong CW, Hsu LY, Tambyah PA. Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis. N Engl J Med. 2008 27;358:1399-400 

Lee VJ, Chan MI, Chan SP, Wong CS, Cutter J, Goh KT, Tambyah PA. Influenza pandemics in Singapore, a Tropical Globally Connected city. Emerg Infect Dis 2007;13:1052-7

Khor WB, Aung T, Saw SM, Wong TY, Tambyah PA, Tan AL, Beuerman R, Lim L, Chan WK, Heng WJ, Lim J, Loh RS, Lee SB, Tan DT. An outbreak of Fusarium keratitis associated with contact lens wear in Singapore. JAMA. 2006;295:2867-73.

Maki DG and Tambyah PA (2001) Engineering out the risk for infection with urinary catheters. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 7:342-347

Chow VT, Tambyah PA and Yeo WM et al (2000) Diagnosis of Nipah virus encephalitis by electron microscopy of cerebrospinal fluid. J. Clin. Virol. 19:143-147

Kuamarsinghe G, Chow C and Tambyah PA (2000) The emergence of resistance to levofloxacin before clinical use in a university hospital in Singapore. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 46:862-863