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Bolivia, Peru, Italy and Sweden are the partners
of this reasearch project.
A brief description of the Italian organisations which are part of
this joint venture, will follow:
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University
of Florence, Division of Infectious Diseases (UFDID), Florence
UFDID is
engaged in clinical, research, and teaching activities. Research
is conducted in various different fields, such as antimicrobial
chemotherapy, bacteriology, tropical medicine, epidemiology,
parasitology, and viral hepatitis. UFDID has been carrying out
scientific research in Bolivia since 1986, working in close
cooperation with the Bolivian Ministry of Health (BMH). Following
an agreement with the local health authorities of Cordillera
province, the Regional Health Department of Santa Cruz (HDSC)
and the BMH, research programmes were conducted in order to
investigate some epidemiological aspects of infectious and parasitic
diseases. In 1987, an official agreement was signed between
the University of Florence, BMH and the HDSC. This agreement
has been renewed every five years.
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University
of Florence, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology,
Florence
The
Department is engaged in research, organisational and teaching
activities. The main research areas include food and nutrition
hygiene, epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases,
identification and control of indicators of hygienic conditions
in the environment and in special settings (e.g. operating
rooms, wards for compromised patients, etc.), microbiological
controls of water. Epidemiological studies of different design
are planned and performed, and their results analysed by suitable
statistical tools. Studies on the epidemiology and prevention
of infectious diseases are published in both national and
international journals.
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University
of Siena, Department of Molecular Biology (USDMB),
Siena
USDMB is the largest Department of Siena University
including 22 faculty members from the Schools of Medicine,
Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biological Sciences,
and is involved in teaching and research in the fields of
Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Byophisics
and Genetics. It also has 32 permanent technical and administrative
staff. The Department is equipped with several laboratories
and has all the major basic and advanced facilities to perform
molecular analysis work on biological systems. It also operates
clinical services in Clinical Microbiology, Immunochemistry
and Genetics for Siena University Hospital, and hosts an Advanced
School of Microbiology and Virology and a PhD Program in Biotechnology.
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