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Nutrition / 
Diarrhoea 
Diseases 
¾
 
Transfer of basic 
technology through amino 
acid analysis, quantitative 
analysis of metals, 
comparison for quantity of 
metals among various 
disease patients 
¾
 
Relation between 
diarrhoea and malnutrition
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Analysis of nutrients in 
food, blood and body 
tissues 
¾
 
Improvement of the 
nutritional status of infants 
through appropriate 
weaning foods 
¾
 
Determination of the 
prevalence of Vitamin A 
deficiencies and anaemia 
¾
 
Persistent diarrhoea in 
childhood 
¾
 
Nutrition and persistent 
diarrhoea 
¾
 
Persistent diarrhoea and 
immune dysfunction 
¾
 
Immuno-competence in 
protein-energy 
malnutritio. 
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Cereal based-ORS study
 
 
General 
Subjects 
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Sample preparation for 
the electron microscope 
¾
 
Study on morbidity 
changes, antigens for 
yellow fever, leptospirosis
¾
 
Serological diagnosis for 
human retroviruses, 
yellow fever virus, 
measles virus, rubella 
virus, and polio virus   
¾
 
Establishment of virus 
isolation techniques and 
epidemiological analysis 
of virus infectious 
diseases  
 
 
 
VPD 
 
¾
 
Potency tests for 
polioviruses, measles 
virus, and yellow fever 
virus vaccine (in 
cooperation with MOH & 
UNICEF) 
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Monitoring of    the 
effectiveness of imported 
cold chain vaccines 
¾
 
Assessment of a rise in 
antibodies after 
vaccination with 
polioviruses  
¾
 
Evaluation of WHO 
recommended the four 
doses schedule of 
vaccination for poliovirus 
at birth   
¾
 
Evaluation of the two 
doses schedule of the 
double normal dose of the 
poliovirus vaccine 
¾
 
Comparison of 
seroconversion rates of 
poliovirus vaccination 
¾
 
Evaluation of the 
effectiveness of DTP 
vaccines by epidemiologic 
and immunologic methods
¾
 
Investigation of the 
effectiveness of various 
measles vaccines and the 
determination of the 
appropriate timing for 
vaccination 
¾
 
Evaluation of the 
acquisition of immunity 
after the administration of 
EPI vaccines in 
malnourished and 
immunocompromised 
children, and to determine 
the appropriate schedule 
of vaccination among both 
healthy and 
immunocompromised 
hosts  
¾
 
Development of a 
vaccine quality control 
system 
¾
 
Viral haemorrhagic fever 
antibody tests (yellow 
fever virus IgM, IgM of 
dengue fever virus, and 
IgG, Ebola, Marburg, and 
Lassa fever virus, etc.).   
¾
 
Introduction of RT-PCR 
techniques to identify 
virus genomes in 
mosquitoes  
¾
 
Establishment of a 
community- based 
surveillance system in the 
Dangme East District for 
measles  
¾
 
Clarification of the 
cytokine profiles in 
plasma, changes in the 
population of lymphocyte 
surface markers and 
apoptosis related events, 
during and after measles 
infection for the better 
understanding of 
immuno-suppression after 
measles infection