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Collaborative
Research Opportunities
The WHOCC-Plague
maintains an active research program involving individuals at the center
and collaborators from many other laboratories and plague programs in
the United States and other countries.
The center is especially
interested in research intended to:
- Develop improved
animal-based surveillance systems that will more effectively identify
threatening epizootic activity.
- Better characterize
risk factors for persons living in plague-endemic regions of the United
States and other countries.
- Use geographic
information system (GIS) and remote sensing technologies to better identify
areas and conditions associated with increased human plague risk.
- Use mathematical
modeling to improve our understanding of spatiotemporal variations in
human plague risks and epizootic activity.
- Improve our understanding
of the ecology and maintenance of plague in different natural foci.
- Develop improved
techniques for the rapid and reliable diagnosis of plague.
- Develop improved
techniques for molecular epidemiology investigations of Y. pestis.
- Improve screening
techniques for antimicrobial resistance.
- Develop improved
methods for flea control; and Develop improved health education strategies.
- Develop international
network for monitoring Yersinia pestis strains.
- Improve understanding
of pathogenic mechanisms of Y. pestis.
Publications resulting
from collaborative research activities of the WHOCC-Plague (1990-2000)
are listed in the Publications section of this website (click
to go to Publications).
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