Following the production of the Institute’s Readers as part of the 65th anniversary celebration of the University, a decision was taken to document the research activities being undertaken in the Institute as a follow up to the annual report last published in 2011. [...] The Department received a number of Institutions including the Department of Microbiology and the Department of Medical Laboratory Technology of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology as well as the Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology of the University of Cape Coast. [...] DEPARTMENT OF IMMUNOLOGY The overarching focus of the Department has been the exploitation of the discipline of immunology for improved diagnosis, treatment, control and prevention of the major infectious diseases prevalent in Ghana. [...] Training and Teaching Staff of the Department taught courses in Nutrition to students of the Schools of Allied Health Sciences and Public Health of the College of Health Sciences, and supervised MPhil and PhD students in other institutions in Ghana and abroad. [...] Such indicators ignore equally important aspects of TB control which includes the duration of infectivity, the frequency of reactivation, and the risk of progression among the infected contacts or the risk of transmission.
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