Visiting professor Diana Scorpio (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine): collaboration in research project and graduated course

• Grant number: 12/07571-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: September 08, 2012
• End date: September 21, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Preventive Veterinary Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Rosangela Zacarias Machado
• Grantee: Rosangela Zacarias Machado
• Visiting researcher: Diana Gerardi Scorpio
• Visiting researcher institution: Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The researcher will contribute to the development of a research project untitled "Evaluation of Vectorial Competence of Amblyomma cajennense, Amblyomma triste and Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus Tick Species in the Transmission of Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum) Agent". Also, she will have lectures in Course for Master and Ph.D. students "Recognition of Rickettsial diseases in human and animals: epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment" (AU)