Susan Abarca Salazar: consultant in paediatric infectious diseases whose research benefited children with neurological infections

bmj;383/dec05_11/p2849/FAF1faYYNYsalazar301123.f1YYSusan Abarca Salazar, a consultant in infectious diseases who was conducting doctoral research on evaluating new diagnostics to distinguish between children with tuberculous meningitis and other central nervous system infections, has died unexpectedly.Abarca Salazar was born in Cusco, Peru, the third child of Práxides Salazar Saire and Vicente Abarca Duran, who came from rural families and sent their children to the city to look for a better life. According to her sister Adelma, Abarca Salazar was eager for knowledge from a young age, so much so that she bought herself secondhand books, which she read avidly, eventually managing to assemble a large library. Aged 7, Abarca Salazar accompanied her mother, “a street vendor, with no home of her own, who raised her children on her own, to the city of Lima, where she had the support of her brothers.” Studious, hardworking, and determined, Abarca Salazar became a role model to…
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