Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150104670

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150104670

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Environmental contamination and pig disease: an Australian microbe evolves. The Australian pig industry produces pork commodities from over 4.75 million pigs per year. Infectious diseases in industrial-scale piggeries can have a devastating effect on pork production, particularly on feed conversion efficiency and growth rates, and can pose downstream environmental contamination and food safety risks. This project aims to assess a current infectious disease problem in pigs by studying a microbe that appears to have uniquely evolved in Australia. These results could inform the rational design of monitoring, prevention and treatment strategies to minimise infection outbreaks in Australian pigs and may result in production benefits to the pork industry, reduced environmental microbial contamination and safer food.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $415,300.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Infectious Agents | Veterinary Microbiology (excl. Virology) | Animal Production | Animal Protection (Pests and Pathogens)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Pigs | Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Production | Animal Protection (Pests and Pathogens) | Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Infectious Agents | Pigs | Veterinary Microbiology (excl. Virology)

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