INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

杜兰ICIDR计划的主要目标是继续其正在进行的 研究计划在哥伦比亚，南美洲，总部设在卡利， 这将解决该国的主要公共卫生问题， 新热带地区，这是感兴趣的和重要的， 世界其他地方的科学界也是如此。 一个小 平行研究的卫星项目将在共和国进行， 海地也是。 调查将在一个合作的 美国科学家和同行之间的跨学科基础， 东道国。 这些项目主要针对基础 生物学、流行病学和免疫学调查， 包括利什曼病在内的人类媒介传播的寄生虫病， 锥虫病和丝虫病。 利什曼原虫属，克氏锥虫， 班氏吴策线虫、奥氏曼索线虫、M. perstans和盘尾丝虫 肠扭转是重要的或潜在的疾病问题， 将进行研究。 调查小组成员包括医务人员 寄生虫学家、昆虫学家、免疫学家和临床医生。 的 从长远来看，研究的目的是获得一个更完整的 了解这些疾病的各个方面， 最终控制或消灭。 哥伦比亚科学基金会 研究是哥伦比亚主办和对应组织的杜兰 程序.

The major objective of the Tulane ICIDR program is to continue its ongoing research program in Columbia, South America, with headquarters in Cali, which will address major public health problems of the country and neotropical region and which are of interest and importance to the scientific community in other parts of the world as well. A small satellite project of parallel studies will be conducted in the Republic of Haiti as well. The investigations will be carried out on a collaborative and interdisciplinary basis between American scientists and counterparts in the host countries. The proposed projects are directed toward basic biological, epidemiological and immunological investigations of selected, vector-borne parasitic disease of man including leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis and filariasis. The Leishmania spp., Trypanosoma cruzi, Wuchereria bancrofti, Mansonella ozzardi, M. perstans, and Onchocerca volvulus are important or potential disease problems in the areas where the studies will be carried out. Investigative team members include medical parasitologists, entomologists, immunologists and medical clinicians. The studies, in the long-term, are aimed at gaining a more complete understanding of various aspects of these diseases which will contribute to their eventual control or eradication. The Colombian Fund for Scientific Research is the Colombian host and counterpart organization of the Tulane program.