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The last 25 years have seen notable advances in the field of infectious diseases: Smallpox was eradicated and Poliovirus is likely to follow, as are other preventable viral diseases. Unfortunately threats like AIDS, Lyme disease, and exotic mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile encephalitis have emerged and new antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria have been discovered. In recent years scientists have also discovered that a number of diseases thought to be of uncertain origin, like ulcers, are in fact caused by infectious agents.

The Center for Infectious Diseases conducts basic and applied research on microbial pathogenesis: how microbes cause disease and how the body fights off the infection.