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Ayyavoo receives R01 grant to study HIV-induced neurocognitive impairment and complement in central nervous system
Velpandi Ayyavoo, PhD, professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke—part of the National Institutes of Health—to investigate the mechanisms contributing to cognitive impairment in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Pennsylvania tick season can hide a second dangerous infection
“There is some evidence that your symptoms will be more intense if you've got both of the infections,” said Danielle Tufts, assistant professor of infectious diseases and microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, about co-infection with Lyme disease and Anaplasmosis, the state’s second-most common tick-borne illness. “You can get co-infected with them, but... if you get a treatment of doxycycline, it should take care of both.”
One Health promised, not delivered: Pitt Public Health researchers publish commentary on Ebola outbreak
In a correspondence published Aug. 20 in The Lancet, Suresh Kuchipudi, PhD, MVSc, MBA, professor and chair of infectious diseases and microbiology at Pitt Public Health, and an international team of global health experts argue that sustained investment in One Health systems is needed to detect and contain emerging diseases before they become larger outbreaks.