Training to Enhance Schistosomiasis Research in Brazil

血吸虫病是一种重新出现的疾病，因为它在过去十年中在人类中的发病率有所增加。目前，世界上76个国家的约2亿人患有该病。它的主要影响是使人们康复，尽管有80万人死于这种疾病。这笔培训资金将加强我们目前在巴西的研究计划，并通过建立遗传流行病学和地理信息系统研究计划，使我们能够在菲奥克鲁斯的佩斯基萨斯雷内拉丘中心建立可持续的研究能力，以加强正在进行的免疫学现场研究，加强现有的免疫学、生物信息学计划，并使美国知名科学家对新出现和重新出现的疾病感兴趣。我们建议对4名博士后研究员进行长期培训，每人两年，中短期培训加上讲习班，以便对我们的研究产生立竿见影的影响，并吸引巴西科学界的兴趣。这笔培训赠款预计将通过对血吸虫病的研究，加强与雷内·拉丘中心和国际传染病研究中心有关的美国和巴西科学家的能力，以了解和应对新出现的传染病，并进一步培训他们应对任何传染病的爆发。

Schistosomiasis is a re-emerging disease as its incidence has increased in humans over the past decade. It currently afflicts some 200 million individuals in 76 countries of the world. Its main impact is to dehabilitate populations although 800,000 people succumb to the disease. This training grant will strengthen our current research program in Brazil and allow us to build sustainable research capacity at the Centro des Pesquisas Rene Rachou, FIOCRUZ by establishing research programs in genetic epidemiologic and geographic information systems to enhance ongoing immunological field research, strengthen existing programs in immunology, bioinformatics and interest established American scientists in emerging and reemerging diseases. We propose long-term training of 4 postdoctoral fellows, two years each, mid- and short-term training coupled with workshops to have an immediate impact on our research and to attract the interest of the Brazilian scientific community. This training grant is expected to strengthen the capacity of American and Brazilian scientists associated with the Centro des Pesquisas Rene Rachou and the International Center for Infectious Diseases Research Program through studies on schistosomiasis to understand and respond to a reemerging infectious disease and with further training to outbreaks of any infectious disease.