FACULTY

Richard Yanagihara, MD, MPH
Professor
Director, Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research

Research interests: Geographic medicine and place diseases (epidemiology; clinical and laboratory diagnosis; etiology) Infectious diseases and virology (epidemiology, epizootiology and ecology; pathogenesis; tissue targeting and virulence; immunology; viral hemorrhagic fevers; neurotropic and lymphotropic retroviruses; oncogenic viruses; molecular evolution) Food-chain diseases (bioamplification and biotransformation of toxic compounds in the etiology of chronic neurological diseases; nutritional factors in the emergence of virulent microbial agents).

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