Small Grants for Capacity Building

2008Lab funded by an SSI grant

Liz Betzabé Rodriquez (Managua, Nicaragua): "Use of Polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Plasmodium in residents from three municipalities in Chinandega"

Manuel Baldeon (Quito, Ecuador): "Study of plants with pharmacological potential for the Maquipucuna Reserve in the Pichincha Province"

2007

Clemencia Ovalle (Bogota, Colombia): “Estandarizacion de PCR-RFLP mini-exones de Leishmania para el diagnostico de formas cutanea y mucosa”

Gabriel Trueba and Mauricio Espinel (Guayaquil, Ecuador): “Burden of Leptospirosis in the Slums of Guayaquil”

2005-2006

John Carlos Castaño (Quindio, Colombia): “Development and Standardization of ELISA IgM test using Dengue virus specific anti-NS1”

Gabriel Parra (Asuncion, Paraguay): “Molecular characterization of Rotavirus strains isolated from children with acute diarrhea visiting health centers from different regions of Paraguay”

Maria Aparecida (Uberlandia, Brazil): “Leishmaniasis in Uberlandia, Brazil: Epidemiology and Immunology”

Enrique Morbidoni (Rosario, Argentian): “Mycobacteriophages applied to diagnostics and drug susceptibility testing of tuberculosis”

2003-2004

Gabriel Trueba (Quito, Ecuador): “Biofilms in Rivers May be Survival Niche for Pathogenic Leptospira”

Manuel Baldeon (Quito, Ecuador): “Effect on infant formula with probiotics on intestinal microbiota”

Genoveva Keyeux (Bogota, Colombia): “Role of Manose binding lectin (MBL) in the diferential expression of lung infection and fatal respiratory disease in Cystic Fibrosis patients from Colombia”

2001-2002

Washington Cuña (La Paz, Bolivia): “Treatment of cutaneous and mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis”

Enrique Teran (Quito, Bolivia): “Study of chronic subclinical infection and systematic inflamation in Ecuadorian women with normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia”

S.Q. Nizami (Karachi, Pakistan):"Estimation of prevalence of typhoid fever in an urban slum in Karachi Pakistan using polymerase chain reaction technology"

1999-2000

Mauricio Espinel (Quito, Ecuador):“Prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STD's) in the Rainforest Population of the North of Esmeraldas, Ecuador”

Blanca Inés Restrepo (Medellin, Colombia): “Neurocysticercosis serology in patients with mental alterations”

Mauricio Rojas (Medellin, Colombia): “Modulation of Macrophage apoptosis by anti-mycobacterial therapy: physiological role of apoptosis in the control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis”