1st Edition
Dengue Diagnostics The Right Test at the Right Time for the Right Group
1. Introduction to Dengue and Issues with Current Diagnostics
Shamala Devi Sekaran, Rishya Manikam, and Gaythri Thergerajan
2. Traditional and Current Diagnostics
Wang Seok Mui and Chandramathi Samudi Raju
3. Newer Diagnostics for Dengue Disease
Crystale Lim Siew Ying, Nur Haliza Hassan, and Shamala Devi Sekaran
4. Search of Newer Markers for Dengue Disease
Yong Yean Kong, Tan Hong Yien, Shamala Devi Sekaran, and Rishya Manikam
5. Research and Recommendations
Shamala Devi Sekaran
Biography
Shamala Devi Sekaran is a professor in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at UCSI University Kuala Lumpur Campus, Malaysia. She teaches immunology and microbiology to undergraduates and postgraduates of medical, dental, and biomedical sciences. She obtained her PhD in 1986 on cell-mediated immune responses to dengue in mice. She is a fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia, since 2017 and fellow of the Royal Society of Pathologists, London, since 2019. Administratively, she was the director of the WHO collaborating center from 2003 to 2007; a member of the faculty committee for postgraduate degrees and viva voces, promotions, and counselling; coordinator for the MBBS, dental and biomedical courses; and head of the virology diagnostic laboratory. Her expertise is in research on infectious diseases, focusing on dengue and the development and evaluation of diagnostics, endothelial dysfunction mechanisms, and antivirals. She has received multiple awards for the kits developed, owns more than 20 patents (out of which 3 are commercialized), has published more than 250 research papers, and has an h-index of 44 with more than 6000 citations. Currently, she is investigating the effects of diabetes and obesity on severe dengue and attempting to develop serological assays to differentiate flaviviruses.
