Dr Petersen is a research microbiologist with the Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado.
gov/ncidod/dvbid The Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID) serves as a national and international reference center on vectorborne viral and bacterial diseases.
West Nile season usually peaks in late August and doesn't end until November, so it's hard to say exactly how bad the season will be, said Petersen, the Colorado-based director of the CDC's Division of Vector-borne Infectious Diseases.
The two-year grant will fund a collaborative effort led by Inviragen and involving scientists at the University of Wisconsin and Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Zeidner, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, 3150 Rampart Rd, Foothills Campus, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA; email: naz2@ cdc.
To develop Inviragen's lead dengue vaccine, the company partnered with the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative, Shantha Biotechnics in India, the Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of Wisconsin, and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
