CLOSING THE GAP IN EARLY DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITIES FOR MYCOSES - DNA BARCODING TO COMBAT AN EMERGING GLOBAL HEALTH PROBLEM

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1121936

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Fungal infections are a major health threat with high mortality and costs. Fast identification of a causative agent is required to initiate correct treatment to maximise disease outcome. Short DNA sequences – DNA barcodes – offer a fast accurate identification. This grant sets out to establish a dual-locus barcode scheme, build a reference database, adapt the scheme to new sequencing technologies and to facilitate sequence-based fungal identification in the routine diagnostic laboratory.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 01-01-2019

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $753,447.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Microbiology not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

DNA sequencing | bioinformatics | databases | molecular diagnostics | mycology

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