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Erol Fikrig, MD

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Section Chief, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine

Tick-borne transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme disease) and Anaplasma phagocytophilum(which causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis); Mosquito transmission of flaviruses and Plasmodium; Innate immune responses and vaccine design.