Lijuan Zhang
National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China
Biography
Li-juan Zhang (MD, PhD) is the Director of the Dept. of Rickettisology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC. She is and PhD Candidate Supervisor and one of the members of the Committee of Natural Focus Disease, Ministry of Hygiene of People’s Republic of China, and a member of the National Zoonoses Committee. Her research interests are national surveillance of Rickettsioses, Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis and molecular epidemiological and pathogenesis researches of rickettsiae, anaplasma and ehrlichia .She has published more than 60 papers on the surveillance of rickettsiae and basic research on rickettsiae agents.