Abstract

The purpose of this core is to support the field activities. Our group also has a full time field station with telephone and accommodations for over 10 people. A small laboratory is also present in the field station. The field study sites are located within a half an hour of the field station over asphalt road. We also have access to peasant markets for buying T. solium infected pigs. These are to be used for Component 2 and 3 studies. We will use palm top computers that have been programmed with special screens for the entry programs. These programs will have consistency and numerical checks built in to reduce digitation errors. Each day the entries will be downloaded into a central data file as well as having a printout made so that a paper trial exists. This should enable us to have immediate one lie data analysis. Each weeks data sheets will be sent back to each of the units. This unit will use GPS equipment to collect data on spatial- related variables. This information will be organized with laboratory and field information in a GIS data base.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Type
Research Project--Cooperative Agreements (U01)
Project #
2U01AI035894-06
Application #
6201204
Study Section
Project Start
1999-09-01
Project End
2000-08-31
Budget Start
1997-10-01
Budget End
1998-09-30
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Johns Hopkins University
Department
Type
DUNS #
045911138
City
Baltimore
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
21218

  Publications

Gonzales, Isidro; Miranda, J Jaime; Rodriguez, Silvia et al. (2015) Seizures, cysticercosis and rural-to-urban migration: the PERU MIGRANT study. Trop Med Int Health 20:546-52
Arriola, Carmen S; Gonzalez, Armando E; Gomez-Puerta, Luis A et al. (2014) New insights in cysticercosis transmission. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8:e3247
Gavidia, Cesar M; Verastegui, Manuela R; Garcia, Hector H et al. (2013) Relationship between serum antibodies and Taenia solium larvae burden in pigs raised in field conditions. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 7:e2192
O'Neal, Seth E; Moyano, Luz M; Ayvar, Viterbo et al. (2012) Geographic correlation between tapeworm carriers and heavily infected cysticercotic pigs. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 6:e1953
Gavidia, Cesar M; Gonzalez, Armando E; Barron, Eduardo A et al. (2010) Evaluation of oxfendazole, praziquantel and albendazole against cystic echinococcosis: a randomized clinical trial in naturally infected sheep. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4:e616
Uddin, Jasim; Gonzalez, Armando E; Gilman, Robert H et al. (2010) Mechanisms regulating monocyte CXCL8 secretion in neurocysticercosis and the effect of antiparasitic therapy. J Immunol 185:4478-84
Sheen, Patricia; Ferrer, Patricia; Gilman, Robert H et al. (2009) Effect of pyrazinamidase activity on pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 89:109-13
Lescano, Andres G; Garcia, Hector H; Gilman, Robert H et al. (2009) Taenia solium cysticercosis hotspots surrounding tapeworm carriers: clustering on human seroprevalence but not on seizures. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 3:e371
Villarán, Manuel V; Montano, Silvia M; Gonzalvez, Guillermo et al. (2009) Epilepsy and neurocysticercosis: an incidence study in a Peruvian rural population. Neuroepidemiology 33:25-31
Gavidia, Cesar M; Gonzalez, Armando E; Lopera, Luis et al. (2009) Evaluation of nitazoxanide and oxfendazole efficacy against cystic echinococcosis in naturally infected sheep. Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:367-72

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