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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Institute:
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Host Investigator:
Dr. Beatriz Moreira

UC Berkeley Investigator:
Dr. Lee W. Riley is a Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases in the School of Public Health. The Riley group focuses on three general areas: I) basic biology of infectious disease pathogenesis, II) epidemiology of drug-resistant infectious diseases, and III) global health focused on infectious diseases of urban slums.Knowledge gained from each of the research areas is used to generate databases and reagents that can be used as research tools. All of these projects focus on infectious diseases of global importance, including tuberculosis, E. coli, and leptospirosis.

The Riley lab has been involved in collaborative projects in Brazil since 1990, focused on infectious diseases of importance to urban centers of Brazil. More recently, the collaboration has begun to focus on chronic infectious diseases of urban slums (favelas). One project examines hospital infections in Rio de Janeiro, which are are a major emerging problem in Rio as well as in other major cities of Brazil. For the last 4 years, the Riley lab has been conducting molecular epidemiologic studies to understand risk factors for transmission and characterize pathogens implicated in hospital infections.

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