Laboratory research
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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
- Developing Australasia’s serological capability for viral haemorrhagic fevers
- Development and evaluation of a carbon dioxide-free system for mosquito-borne disease surveillance
- 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
- 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
Related Publications
- 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