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Marina Gramiccia

Senior researcher of the Section of Vector-Borne Diseases and International Health, MIPI Department

Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS)

Viale Regina Elena 299 - 00161 Rome, Italy

Tel +39 06 49903015

Fax +39 06 49903561

E-mail: marina.gramiccia@iss.it

Studi e formazione:

Doctorate in Biological Sciences, University “La Sapienza”of Rome , Italy (1977)
Incarichi, attività didattica 

1978-1982: Research fellowship, Ministry of Health;

1982-1991: Researcher, Dept. Parasitology, Unit of Protozoology, ISS, Rome

1992-2004: Senior researcher, Dept. Parasitology, Unit of Protozoology, ISS, Rome ;

from 1992: Head of the Unit of Biochemistry of parasites, Dept. Parasitology, ISS, Rome

from 2004: Senior researcher of the Section of Vector Borne Diseases and International Health, MIPI Dept, ISS

Sintesi delle attività
(i) main field: Epidemiology and control of leishmaniases (Taxonomy of  Old World Leishmania, diagnosis and surveillance). (ii) other fields: Protozoa of medical interest (Entamoeba, Trypanosoma, Giardia). (iii) current research interests: 1. Molecular and biochemical caracterization of Leishmania in the Mediterranean Basin; 2. Evaluation and testing of molecular diagnosis of leishmaniases and amoebiasis; 3. Molecular polymorphisms in Leishmania infantum; 4. Analysis of the genetic polymorphism of the sandflies belonging to the subgenus Larroussius vectors of Leishmania infantum. 5. Co-evolution Phlebotomus-Leishmania
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