Reports
across the globe on the growing threat of new and reemerging
infectious diseases are made seemingly every day.
What are the challenges today of infectious diseases?
Funding
priorities and proposed endowments for emerging and infectious
diseases research
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Under
the direction of David
H. Walker M.D., the UTMB Center
for Tropical Diseases, has emerged a world leader in infectious
diseases research.
Here at the university and at field sites around the globe, our
scientist (who represent one of the world’s most
significant contributions of expertise in tropical and emerging
infections) are
studying a vast array of bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic
diseases. Among those are malaria, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, spotted
fever rickettsioses, yellow fever, dengue fever, cholera, hantavirus
and AIDS.
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