The Vibrio parahaemolyticus pandemic.
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چکیده
G. Balakrish Nair es Director del Laboratory Sciences Division, en el International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)-Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Se graduó de Madras University en 1975, realizó una maestría en Biología Marina en 1977 en Annamalai University alcanzando el grado de PhD en 1982. Entonces se integró al Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Calcutta, perteneciente al Indian Council of Medical Research and Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Diarrhoeal Diseases, OMS, hasta el año 2000. Ha trabajado en enteropatógenos con particular énfasis en Vibrio cholerae. Es el primer microbiólogo indio elegido para el Comité ejecutivo del International Union of Microbiological Society (IUMS). Además es miembro del Subcomité de Taxonomía de Vibrionaceae, en el International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology, desde 1986. El Dr. Nair fue designado Foreign Associate de la National Academy of Sciences, E.U.A. En 2004 fue elegido Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italia, rebautizada como Academy of Sciences for the Developing Nations. Entre otras distinciones ha recibido el Certificate of Merit del Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, E.U.A., en reconocimiento a su enorme contribución a Educación en Salud Pública acerca de Vibrio cholerae y cólera, el Professor S.C. Mahalanobis Memorial Award de la Physiological Society of India, y el prestigioso Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar for Medical Sciences por su contribución al descubrimiento de un nuevo serogrupo de Vibrio cholerae, ahora identificado como O139 Bengal. G.B. Nair es miembro del Comité Editorial de las siguientes publicaciones: World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Epidemiology and Infection, Microbes and Environment, Indian Journal of Experimental Biology y de Indian Journal of Microbiology. Ha publicado más de 350 artículos en los tópicos de microbiología clínica, epidemiología molecular y patogenia molecular de bacterias entéricas.
منابع مشابه
Filamentous phage associated with recent pandemic strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Revista chilena de infectologia : organo oficial de la Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia
دوره 22 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005