Laboratory research
Theme Leaders
Description
Laboratory researchers need the capacity to rapidly provide information about emerging or re-emerging diseases. For example, basic research can provide new diagnostic tests and essential advice about safe-handling protocols.
Related Projects
- ‘First Few X’ (FFX) research project to enhance the public health response to COVID-19 in Australia
- Developing Australasia’s serological capability for viral haemorrhagic fevers
- Development and evaluation of a carbon dioxide-free system for mosquito-borne disease surveillance
- Establishing a national biobank for COVID-19
- Frequently Asked Questions – ‘First Few X’ (FFX) project to enhance the public health response to COVID-19 in Australia
- Human parechovirus 3 (HPeV3) recombinant strain diversity and severe disease association in Australian outbreaks
- Improved detection and characterisation of flaviviruses and their antibodies in humans, animals and mosquitoes
- Influenza sero-surveillance at the animal-human interface: a feasibility study in high-risk groups
- National and targeted sero-surveys of population immunity to SARS-COV2 to inform clinical and public health responses
- Sampling, shipping and serology: a proof of concept study of influenza immunity
- Sentinel Travellers and Research Preparedness Platform for Emerging Infectious Disease (SETREP-ID)
- Specimen collection protocols to accompany FF100 enhanced data collection studies
- Understanding host response of severe viral pneumonitis
Related Publications
- Metagenomic characterisation of additional and novel avian viruses from Australian wild ducks
- Phylogenetic and timescale analysis of Barmah Forest virus as inferred from genome sequence analysis
- Genome-scale phylogeny and evolutionary analysis of Ross River virus reveals periodic sweeps of lineage dominance in Western Australia, 1977-2014
- HPeV3 diversity, recombination and clinical impact across 7-years: an Australian story
- Priorities in Biobanking Research: A Report on the 2021 ISBER Round Table
- A point-of-care lateral flow assay for neutralising antibodies against SARS-CoV-2
- Longitudinal evaluation of laboratory-based serological assays for SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection
- Neonatal parechovirus infection: Possibility of in-utero transmission
- Optimal allocation of PCR tests to minimise disease transmission through contact tracing and quarantine
- Exploring the cause of diarrhoea and poor growth in 8–11-week-old pigs from an Australian pig herd using metagenomic sequencing
- Evaluation of 6 commercial SARS-CoV-2 serology assays detecting different antibodies for clinical testing and serosurveillance
- Reprogrammed CRISPR-Cas13b suppresses SARS-CoV-2 replication and circumvents its mutational escape through mismatch tolerance
- An increased ratio of SARS-CoV-2 positive to negative sense genomic and subgenomic RNAs within routine diagnostic upper respiratory tract swabs may be a marker of virion shedding [preprint]
- Temporal differences in culturable severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts in a patient with moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Integrated immune dynamics define correlates of COVID-19 severity and antibody responses
- Multi-site assessment of rapid, point-of-care antigen testing for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a low-prevalence setting: A validation and implementation study
- SARS-CoV-2 genomic and subgenomic RNAs in diagnostic samples are not an indicator of active replication
- Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in Sydney, Australia following the first epidemic wave in 2020
- Infection dynamics of swine influenza virus in a Danish pig herd reveals recurrent infections with different variants of the H1N2 swine influenza A virus subtype
- Tracking the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia using genomics
- Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Australian educational settings: a prospective cohort study
- Metagenomic characterisation of avian parvoviruses and picornaviruses from Australian wild ducks
- The challenges of establishing adequate capacity for SARS‐CoV‐2 testing
- Isolation and rapid sharing of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS ‐CoV‐2) from the first patient diagnosed with COVID ‐19 in Australia
- Rapid research report – The most promising therapeutics for COVID-19
- Breadth of concomitant immune responses prior to patient recovery: a case report of non-severe COVID-19
- Breadth of concomitant immune responses underpinning viral clearance and patient recovery in a non-severe case of COVID-19
- Detection of a reassortant H9N2 Avian Influenza virus with intercontinental gene segments in a resident Australian Chestnut Teal
- An emerging human parechovirus type 5 causing sepsis-like illness in infants in Australia
- Presenteeism among health care workers with laboratory-confirmed influenza infection: A retrospective cohort study in Queensland, Australia
- Parechovirus A infections in healthy Australian children during the first 2-years of life: a community-based longitudinal birth cohort study
- Respiratory illness in a piggery associated with the first identified outbreak of swine influenza in Australia: Assessing the risk to human health and zoonotic potential
- Evolutionary analysis of human parechovirus type 3 and clinical outcomes of infection during the 2017-18 Australian epidemic
- Detection and characterisation of canine astrovirus, canine parvovirus and canine papillomavirus in puppies using next generation sequencing
- The impact of influenza infection on young children, their family and the health care system
- Role of viral and bacterial pathogens in causing pneumonia among Western Australian children: a case-control study protocol
- Divergent human origin influenza viruses detected in Australian swine populations
- Metagenomics detection and characterisation of viruses in faecal samples from Australian wild birds
- Stakeholder Consultation Report – Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies: NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence
- Is Australia prepared for the next pandemic?
- Developing research priorities for Australia’s response to infectious disease emergencies