Education
He graduated from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Doctor of Medicine) and Baylor College of Medicine (Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology).
He graduated from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Doctor of Medicine) and Baylor College of Medicine (Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology).
With Hugo Lumbreras, he co-founded a Tropical Medicine Institute at Cayetano Heredia University, the Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt at Lima, Peru. Guerra later directed the Institute. Guerra"s research focuses on the pathogenesis and immunology of bacterial diseases including brucellosis, leishmania and tuberculosis.
He is the head of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at the Institute of Microtechnology Alexander von Humboldt.