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The Respiratory
and Enteric Viruses Branch is organized into the Office of the Chief and
five teams:
Enteroviruses
Measles and Herpesviruses
Molecular Virology
Respiratory Viruses
Viral Gastroenteritis
About Us
The Respiratory
and Enteric Viruses Branch:
- Provides reference/diagnostic
services and conducts multinational surveillance and epidemiologic studies
for respiratory and enteric virus diseases.
- Conducts studies on the etiology
of respiratory, enteroviral, and enteric virus diseases, methods of
virus isolation, biochemical and antigenic characterization of new viruses,
and improvement of serologic and rapid diagnostic techniques.
- Develops, evaluates, and
improves diagnostic reagents.
- Develops and evaluates methods
to prevent and control disease caused by respiratory viruses, enteroviruses,
measles virus, and enteric viruses.
- Serves as the WHO collaborating
centers for Respiratory Viruses Other Than Influenza, the WHO Collaborating
Center for Rotavirus and the Agents of Viral Gastroenteritis, and the
WHO Collaborating Center for Measles Diagnostics and Molecular Surveillance.
- Develops and evaluates methods
to prevent and control disease caused by respiratory viruses, enteroviruses,
measles virus, herpesviruses and enteric viruses.
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