A new virus causing acute gastroenteritis in humans

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/485204

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Diarrhoea is very common, especially in children but a cause is often not found. Believing there must be undiscovered viruses responsible, we developed a new method to look for them, and discovered one, which we have named adelavirus, in 17% of children with diarrhoea presenting to the WCH, Adelaide, over a 3 month period. 55% were hospitalised. This project proposes to investigate how widespread adelavirus infection is in the community and investigate how a vaccine might be developed.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $575,374.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sport and exercise nutrition

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Children's disease | DNA sequencing | case control study | disease aetiology | enteric infections | molecular diagnostic applications | polymerase chain reaction (PCR) | viral diseases | viral infections

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