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Tuberculosis 2007 687 pages Download PDF, 8.3 MB Home Preface 1. History 2. Molecular Evolution 3. Clinical Bacteriology 4. Genomics and Proteomics 5. Immunology/Pathogenesis 6. Host genetics 7. Epidemiology 8. Other M. tuberculosis 9. Molecular Epidemiology 10. New Vaccines 11. Biosafety/Hospital Control 12. Diagnostic Methods 13. Immunological Diagnosis 14. New Diagnostic Methods 15. Tuberculosis in Adults 16. Tuberculosis in Children 17. Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS 18. Treatment and Drugs 19. Drug Resistance 20. New Perspectives Comments and Suggestions Copyright Removal Disclaimer About Editors Juan Carlos Palomino Sylvia Cardoso Leão Viviana Ritacco Contributing Authors
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Sylvia Cardoso Leão, MD, MSc, PhD
Sylvia Cardoso Leão was born in 1952 in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied medicine at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. After graduation, she joined Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil, for a residency in Internal Medicine, in 1978-9. Between 1979 and 1989 she worked as Internist at different Hospitals in São Paulo and also in private practice. Her research activities began with studies on cancer metastasis at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (São Paulo branch), between 1983 and 1988. She obtained a Master Degree in Clinical Gastroenterology by the University of São Paulo, in 1988. Between 1989 and 1994 she moved to Bogotá, Colombia, with her family. There she began her research activities in tuberculosis at the Immunology Institute from the National University of Colombia and prepared a PhD thesis. In 1993, she attained a PhD Degree in Sciences (Microbiology and Immunology) by the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. In 1996, Sylvia Cardoso Leão was appointed Professor of the Discipline of Microbiology of the Federal University of São Paulo. She is the Head of this Discipline since 2005. She was a founder member of RELACTB, a Tuberculosis Research Network for Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, created in 1995. Other scientific interests are non-tuberculous micobacteria - molecular methods for species identification, standardization of typing techniques - and the study of outbreaks after surgical and cosmetic interventions.
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