A prospective study of the development of innate immunity in preterm infants and susceptibility to neonatal infection

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/572548

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Life-threatening infection is extremely common in preterm infants, affecting at least 25% of those born before 28 weeks. Infection results in huge human and economic costs. There is currently no way of predicting which preterm infants will develop infection. This project will enrol preterm infants at birth and track the development of their protective immune system over the period of greatest vulnerability. This will lead to development of targeted treatement for those at greatest risk.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $377,773.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Paediatrics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Infection | Innate immunology | Neonatal infection | Neonatal sepsis | Newborn | Prematurity | Preterm | Protective immunity | Susceptibility

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