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Shira Shafir, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Epidemiology

Work Phone Number: 310.206.7942

Email Address: sshafir@ucla.edu

Education: Ph.D.
Education: M.P.H.
Research Interests:
Major Discipline: Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Major Research Interest: Parasitic diseases; their ecology, biology, pathology and epidemiology.

Current Research Interest: Diagnosis and viability of parasitic diseases, molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases.



Selected Publications:

Shafir Shira C, Sorvillo Frank J, Smith Lisa Current issues and considerations regarding trichomoniasis and human immunodeficiency virus in African-Americans.. Clinical microbiology reviews. 2009; 22(1): 37-45, Table of Contents.

Shafir Shira C, Sorvillo Frank J, Upcroft Jacqui A, Upcroft Peter A novel method to increase the viability of Trichomonas vaginalis in urine.. Sexually transmitted diseases. 2007; 34(7): 485-7.

Shafir Shira C, Wang Wei, Sorvillo Frank J, Wise Matthew E, Moore Laurel, Sorvillo Teresa, Eberhard Mark L Thermal death point of Baylisascaris procyonis eggs.. Emerging infectious diseases. 2007; 13(1): 172-3.

Shafir Shira C, Sorvillo Frank J Viability of Trichomonas vaginalis in urine: epidemiologic and clinical implications.. Journal of clinical microbiology. 2006; 44(10): 3787-9.

Shafir Shira C, Wise Matthew E, Sorvillo Frank J, Ash Lawrence R Central Nervous System andEye Manifestations of Infection with Baylisascaris procyonis.. Current infectious disease reports. 2006; 8(4): 307-13.

Waugh Cecelia A, Shafir Shira, Wise Matthew, Robinson Ralph D, Eberhard Mark L, Lindo John F Human Angiostrongylus cantonensis, Jamaica.. Emerging infectious diseases. 2005; 11(12): 1977-8.

Wise Matthew E, Sorvillo Frank J, Shafir Shira C, Ash Lawrence R, Berlin O George Severe and fatal central nervous system disease in humans caused by Baylisascaris procyonis, the common roundworm of raccoons: a review of current literature.. Microbes and infection / Institut Pasteur. 2005; 7(2): 317-23.
Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
650 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES

Work Phone Number: 310.206.7942

Email Address: sshafir@ucla.edu

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