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Bio:
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Lorraine McElhinney graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Microbiology from Leeds University in 1991. She then completed an MSc in Animal Parasitology at Bangor University, studying the antigenic characterisation of Schistosoma mansoni and graduating in 1993. She worked as a Research Assistant at Manchester University Faculty of Medicine between 1993 and 1996, completing a PhD study into HHV-6 and HCMV prevalence amongst organ transplant recipients and HIV positive patients. In April 1996, she joined the Rabies Research and Diagnostics Team at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, as a post doctoral researcher developing tools for rabies diagnosis and molecular epidemiological studies. She is currently the deputy of the VLA Rabies and Wildlife Zoonoses Group (UK, OIE and WHO reference laboratory for animal and human rabies) and is involved in a number of Defra and EU funded research and surveillance programmes. These include the surveillance of UK bats for European Bat Lyssaviruses and vector borne zoonotic viruses, molecular epidemiological studies of lyssaviruses and West Nile Virus surveillance. Lorraine works remotely at NCZR.
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