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词条 Naval Medical Research Unit Five
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  1. Commanding officers

  2. References

  3. External links

Naval Medical Research Unit Five (NAMRU-5) was a research laboratory of the US Navy which was founded as a field facility of Naval Medical Research Unit 3 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia with a collecting station in Gambella on December 30, 1965 under an agreement between the US and Ethiopian governments. In 1974 NAMRU-5 was established as its own command and was housed in the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute(former Imperial Central Laboratory Research Institute). The mission of NAMRU-5 was to conduct research and development on infectious diseases of military importance in sub-Sahara Africa. Gambella became the focus of a major malaria control effort and studies on malaria immunology. Applied research focused on the general areas of insect repellents, insecticide resistance, insect attractants and louse control. Members of the NAMRU-5 staff were also among the last Americans to ever see smallpox before its eradication. NAMRU-5 built collaborative research efforts with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; with local medical facilities, including the Haile Selassie University Medical School and various hospitals in Addis Ababa; and with the London School of Tropical Medicine, the University of Washington, Case Western Reserve University Department of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. NAMRU-5 was disestablished in April 1977 following the communist takeover of the government of Ethiopia which ordered all members out of the country in 4 days.

Fields of study included:

  • Louse borne typhus
  • Leptospirosis
  • Onchocerciasis
  • Congenital syphilis
  • Brancroftian filariasis
  • Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)
  • Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Malaria
  • Yellow Fever
  • West Nile fever

Commanding officers

  • Captain Craig K Wallace 1974-6

References

  • [https://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmrc/sitepages/NewsStory.aspx?StoryID=244 R&D Chronicles: Remembering NAMRU-5, the Navy's Medical Laboratory in Ethiopia, 1965-1977]
  • Navy Medical Research & Development News June 2012
  • Navy Research timeline
  • [https://www.flickr.com/photos/travlr/3958751031/ Photo of former site of NAMRU-5]
  • Wood OL et al. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Thogoto, Dugbe, and Jos Viruses Isolated from Ixodid Ticks in Ethiopia
  • Leptosporosis Survey of Rodents and domestic Animals in Ethiopia
  • [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Friedmann%20p%201977%20syphilis Friedmann PS Cell-mediated immunological reactivity in neonates and infants with congenital syphilis.]
  • Palmer TT Chloroquine Sensitivity of Plasmodium Falciparum in Ethiopia: II. Results of an In Vitro Test
  • Leishmaniasis In The Sudan Republic 30. Final Epidemiologic Report

External links

  • Navy Medical Research timeline
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