Nathan Yozwiak is a graduate student in the Infectious Disease and Immunity Program at UCBerkeley and doing his thesis work in the DeRisi laboratory at UCSF. His project focuses on monitoring the threat of international emerging infectious diseases. Occasionally, sending him to Nicaragua. The convergence of viral diagnostic resources at UCSF and ongoing sample collection via the hospital-based study in Nicaragua presents a rare opportunity to delineate the full spectrum of emerging and uncharacterized viral pathogens associated with pediatric illness in a tropical setting using the most recently developed comprehensive molecular tools.

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