> UNUSUAL DISEASES AND EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES |
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Description: Investigation of outbreaks and epidemics, new cases of communicable and noncommunicable diseases that pose threats to the health of the people, establishing causal agents, risk factors and prevention and control measures. |
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> ACCIDENTS INVOLVING POISONOUS ANIMALS |
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Description: Study of the clinical, epidemiological and laboratory aspects of injuries caused by snakes, scorpions and other venomous animals, particularly the species that occur in the Amazon Region.
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> ARBOVIRUSES |
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Description: Clinical, epidemiological and laboratory study of the main arboviruses affecting humans. |
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> CHAGAS DISEASE |
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Description: Biological and molecular study of Trypanosoma cruzi and its interaction with vectors. Study of clinical and epidemiological aspects of Chagas disease in the Brazilian Amazon. |
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> MALARIA |
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Description: Epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic and pathogenesis evaluation of malaria. |
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> MYCOBACTERIOSIS |
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Description: Investigation of diagnostic methods and therapy of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis in the Amazon Region. |
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> SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND VIRAL HEPATITIS |
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Description: Development of studies into aspects related to the transmission of STDs considering the local specificities, epidemiology, clinical picture and therapeutic sensitivity. Phenotypes, opportunistic infections and concomitants in HIV / AIDS patients. |
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> TROPICAL AND INFECTIOUS DERMATOLOGY |
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Description: Study of Dermatozoonoses, superficial mycoses, subcutaneous and other dermatological diseases in order to expand knowledge on some aspects related to the clinical picture and evolution of dermatoses
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