Safeguarding Australia against vector-borne disease bio-incursions

保护澳大利亚免受媒介传播疾病的生物入侵

• 批准号: FT200100732
• 负责人: Prof Rebecca Traub
• 金额: $ 77.16万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-06-29 至 2026-06-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT200100732
• 关键词: Safeguarding; Australia; against; vector; borne

Traditional diagnostic tests limited by their accuracy and ability to detect more than a few pathogens at one time, presents a major hurdle to protecting Australia's companion animals from a plethora of exotic and emerging vector-borne diseases (VBD). Many of these diseases also pose a major risk to public health. This project aims to develop, validate and verify a highly accurate, cost-effective, portable metabarcoding diagnostic test capable of detecting known, emerging and novel parasitic, bacterial and viral VBD pathogens simultaneously, from clinical samples. The assay will represent a potential paradigm shift in the way VBD are tested, for the purpose of safeguarding Australia against VBD bio-incursions.

传统的诊断测试受到其准确性和一次检测多种病原体的能力的限制，这是保护澳大利亚伴侣动物免受大量外来和新兴病媒传播疾病（VBD）的主要障碍。其中许多疾病还对公共卫生构成重大风险。该项目旨在开发，验证和验证一种高度准确，具有成本效益的便携式元条形码诊断测试，能够从临床样本中同时检测已知，新兴和新型寄生虫，细菌和病毒VBD病原体。该试验将代表VBD测试方式的潜在范式转变，以保护澳大利亚免受VBD生物入侵。