SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
Health Campus
UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA (USM)
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
Starting Date in USM: 11 April 2017
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  • MD, PERUBATAN
    UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH (UMS) (MALAYSIA)
  • M PATH, MIKROBIOLOGI PERUBATAN
    UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA, KUBANG KERIAN (MALAYSIA)
BIOGRAPHY
He is a senior Medical Lecturer and Pathologist(Clinical Microbiologist) with a sub-specialty interest in medical mycology. He completed his training in medical mycology in Pasteur Institute, Paris. He is currently the coordinator of Mycology and Bacteriology Laboratory in HPUSM. He is also a member of the hospital antimicrobial stewardship team. He provides consultation for the diagnosis of microbial infections and invasive fungal diseases.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
He is interested in molecular microbiology, particularly the use of molecular epidemiology in the detection of antimicrobial resistance, and metagenomic analysis of microbial infections. He is currently involved in investigating co-infections in hospitalised COVID-19 patients and multidrug resistance in Candidiasis. He is also part of the research teams for Malaysia COVID-19 genomic surveillance and national surveillance of bloodstream infection.

DR. CHUA WEI CHUAN

57194765178
GZH-3313-2022
0000-0002-0905-5089
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Bacteriology
Mycology
Infectious/ Communicable Diseases
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