Biography:
Dr. Francisco Borges Costa graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the State University of Maranhao, Sao Luís, Maranhao - Brazil, and post-graduated as Master Science in 2009. He then joined the research group of Prof. Marcelo Bahia Labruna at the Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science of the University of Sao Paulo, where he obtained his Ph.D degree in 2014. After two years postdoctoral fellowship supervised by Dr Labruna in the Program in Experimental Epidemiology Applied to Zoonoses, he obtained the position of Professor at the PPGCA/UEMA. He has published more than 80 research articles in various areas.
Title : Investigation of wild canid-mediated human rabies death, Brazil, 2021
Title : Epidemiological aspects of rabies in an Amazon-Cerrado transition region of northeastern Brazil