Bacterial and Host Drivers of Fulminant Community-acquired Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1144294

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

This proposal aims to understand how a bacterial pathogen causes severe, life-threatening infections in people from the community in northern Australia. This severe infection particularly impacts people who drink excess alcohol or have diabetes mellitus, and importantly impacts Indigenous Australians the greatest. This work will provide, for the first time, important insights into new prevention and treatment strategies for a serious infection impacting Australians and those in our region.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2018

End Date: 01-01-2020

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $729,315.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Bacteriology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

bacterial pathogenesis | innate immunity | pneumonia | virulence | zebrafish

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