Research Activities of Hokudai Center for Zoonosis Control in Zambia

Hideaki Higashi; Hiroshi Kida

doi:10.20965/jdr.2014.p0818

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Research Activities of Hokudai Center for Zoonosis Control in Zambia

Hideaki Higashi and Hiroshi Kida

Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-20 Nishi-10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan

Received:

May 19, 2014

Accepted:

July 1, 2014

Published:

October 1, 2014

Keywords:

emerging and reemerging infectious disease, South Africa

Abstract

The Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control (CZC) established the Hokudai Center for Zoonosis Control in Zambia (HUCZCZ) at the School of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Zambia, in 2007 to control zoonotic diseases in the areas of South Africa, where various emerging infectious diseases have occurred. The CZC promotes epidemiological studies and basic researches of infectious diseases caused by viruses, protozoa, and bacteria by using the biosafety level 3 facility in the HUCZCZ. This article introduces research activities of the HUCZCZ in Zambia.

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H. Higashi and H. Kida, “Research Activities of Hokudai Center for Zoonosis Control in Zambia,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.9 No.5, pp. 818-822, 2014.

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