Outside the cluster of cinder block structures that make up Kano's Infectious Diseases Hospital, hundreds of sick children are lined up, awaiting treatment from Doctors Without Borders, the nonprofit group, which has set up a tent on hospital grounds.
She was in her second year of working as a researcher and fellow in infectious diseases, the hospital said.
Earlier last year Antonio Giorgio, and his colleagues at the Cotugno Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Naples, published a paper in the American Journal of Roentgenology describing their success in using radio waves, rather than laser light, to treat hepatocellular carcinoma, another form of liver cancer and one that is among the deadliest in the world.
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Dr. Siedner is a postdoctoral fellow in the division of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Ruth Berggren has treated HIV and other infectious disease patients at Charity Hospital in New Orleans for the past five years.
Dr. Ruth Berggren, an infectious disease specialist at Charity Hospital, said the facility had electricity until back-up generators ran out of fuel Tuesday.
Researcher Dr Isaac Bogoch, who specialises in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Toronto General Hospital, told the BBC he had read about smartphone microscopes being trialled in a laboratory and decided to "recreate it in a real world setting".
While working as an infectious-disease doctor on the hospital ship U.S.N.
"Although we believe there are still a few tuberculosis bacteria in his lungs, ongoing antibiotic therapy should kill those, " said Dr Gwen Huitt, director of the hospital's adult infectious disease care unit.
Because of the virus subtype, it is less likely that avian flu would become transmissible from person to person, but still possible, said Dr. William Short at the division of infectious diseases at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. RUTH BERGGREN (Associate Professor, Adult Infectious Diseases, Tulane Medical Center and Charity Hospital): Sitting in the HIV out-patient clinic, taking care of an uninsured man who's coughing, I cannot get a smear on him to diagnose tuberculosis in the city of New Orleans.
And these infectious patients spread resistant bacteria to other patients in a hospital setting.
"If you read the Israeli literature, the Israelis are like, 'duh, '" says Andrew Shorr, an infectious disease specialist who recently left Walter Reed for Washington Hospital Center and says the Israelis have been dealing with the bacteria in battlefield situations for a long time.
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