Targeting Toxoplasma gondii latent stages responsible for chronic disease

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1046587

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Many microbial pathogens become resistant to host immune response and drugs by entering a slow-growing, dormant state. These stages are commonly responsible for long term, chronic infections. We will investigate the molecular basis of dormancy in Toxoplasma gondii, which infects one in three people. These studies will identify metabolic pathways that are essential for dormancy with the view of developing new therapies for treating long term, recurrent infections.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $697,107.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Parasitology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Toxoplasma gondii | metabolism | metabolomics | microbial pathogenesis | microbial protozoan parasites | persistence

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