HIV and Tuberculosis

10.12.2019

Englisch

9783030291075

Springer International Publishing

Nein

347

1st edition 2020

Gebundene Ausgabe

A Formidable Alliance

Irini Sereti is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the HIV Pathogenesis Section at the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA. She is an Infectious Diseases trained physician with expertise in HIV and opportunistic infections including TB, doing translational research at the NIH Clinical Center where she sees patients enrolled in her clinical protocols while also conducting related laboratory research. The main focus of her research is study of people with HIV and advanced disease (low CD4 counts) and opportunistic infections, including TB, in the current antiretroviral area. She also studies inflammation in HIV infection both acutely after antiretroviral therapy initiation in the form of IRIS, but also chronically after suppression of HIV viremia, and has published papers on mycobacterial IRIS pathogenesis and imaging modalities. Her studies aim to better understand pathogenesis of HIV and severe CD4 lymphopenia with the goal to improve management of patients with late presentation to care.

immunology, microbiology, infectious diseases, global health, seminar

PSG - Mikrobiologie (nicht-medizinisch) MJC - Krankheiten und Störungen MJCM - Immunologie MBNS - Epidemiologie und medizinische Statistik

235 mm

15.5 cm