Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases: Modern Methodologies

摘要

Tibayrenc is someone with big ideas. For many years, he has championed a vision of multidis-ciplinary systems to approach infec-tious diseases and public health. One of his longstanding ideas has been to develop a global network of regional institutions built on the model of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To address routine and emerging disease challenges, this net-work would blend state-of-the-art mo-lecular approaches such as evolution-ary genetics, proteomics, sequencing, and subtyping with traditional fi eld investigations and surveillance