The roots of infectious disease science

Shui Shan Lee^{1

2}, Lucille Blumberg^{1

3}, Laura Kramer^{1

4}, Seif Al-Abri^{1

5}, Christina Obiero^{1

6}, Tatiana Castro Abreu Pinto^{1

7}, Richard Yapi^{1

8}, Aisha Ahmed Abubakar^{1

9}, Eskild Petersen^{1

10}

Affiliations

¹ International Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, United States.
² Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
³ Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg South Africa.
⁴ State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, USA.
⁵ Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman.
⁶ Clinical Research Department, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
⁷ Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁸ Centre d'Entomologie Médicale et Vétérinaire, CEMV - Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire.
⁹ Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
¹⁰ Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Editorial

Shui Shan Lee et al. IJID Reg. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 21:1:170-171.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijregi.2021.12.004. eCollection 2021 Dec.

¹ International Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, United States.
² Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
³ Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg South Africa.
⁴ State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, USA.
⁵ Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman.
⁶ Clinical Research Department, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
⁷ Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁸ Centre d'Entomologie Médicale et Vétérinaire, CEMV - Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire.
⁹ Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
¹⁰ Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Farewell to Professor Eskild Petersen - reflections on editorship in pandemic time.
Lee SS, Tambyah PA, Abubakar AA, Holmes AH. Lee SS, et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Sep;122:572-575. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.07.015. Epub 2022 Jul 8. Int J Infect Dis. 2022. PMID: 35811076 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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