Greenough William B
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
J Clin Invest. 2004 Feb;113(3):334-9. doi: 10.1172/JCI20982.
The recent history of research on cholera illustrates the importance of establishing research and care facilities equipped with advanced technologies at locations where specific health problems exist. It is in such settings, where scientific research is often considered difficult due to poverty and the lack of essential infrastructure, that investigators from many countries are able to make important advances. On this, the 25th anniversary of the founding of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), this article seeks to recount the Centre's demonstration of how high-quality research on important global health issues, including cholera, can be accomplished in conditions that may be considered by many as unsuitable for scientific research.
霍乱的近期研究历史表明，在存在特定健康问题的地区建立配备先进技术的研究和护理设施非常重要。正是在这样的环境中，由于贫困和缺乏基本基础设施，科学研究往往被认为困难重重，但来自许多国家的研究人员却能够取得重要进展。值此孟加拉国腹泻病研究国际中心（ICDDR，B）成立25周年之际，本文旨在讲述该中心如何证明，在许多人可能认为不适合科学研究的条件下，仍可完成对包括霍乱在内的重要全球健康问题的高质量研究。
