Application of fourth-generation DNA sequencing for identification of putative virulence factors in the highly pathogenic clone of Corynebacterium diphtheriae causing bacteraemia and endocarditis

2015/17/N/NZ6/03517

Keywords

Descriptors

  • NZ6_4: Bakteriologia

Panel

NZ6 – Human and animal immunology and infection: immunity, immune disorders, immunotherapy, infectious and invasive diseases, microbiology, transplantology, allergology

Host institution

Narodowy Instytut Zdrowia Publicznego - Państwowy Zakład Higieny (NIZP - PZH)

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

dr Tomasz Wołkowicz

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call

PRELUDIUM 9 – announced on 2015-03-16

Amount awarded
149 984 PLN
Project start date
2016-03-15
Project end date
2022-09-14
Project duration
78 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Project settled

Project description

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Komputer o wysokiej mocy obliczeniowej (wymagania minimalne: procesor i7, 8GB RAM, dysk SSD), z monitorem 27'', UPS, MsOffice, program antywirusowy. Cost: 10 000 PLN
  2. Program do genomowych analiz bioinformatycznych (CLC Genome Workbetch, Lasergene 12 lub podobny). Cost: 25 000 PLN

Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (2)

  1. Zastosowanie sekwencjonowania pełnogenomowego do genotypowania bakterii

    Authors:
    Daria Artyszuk, Tomasz Wołkowicz
    Academic press:
    Postępy Mikrobiologii (year: 2018, volume: 57, pages: 179-193), Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Mikrobiologów
    Status:
    Published
  2. The utility and perspectives of NGS-based methods in BSL-3 and BSL-4 laboratory – sequencing and analysis strategies

    Authors:
    Tomasz Wołkowicz
    Academic press:
    Briefings in Functional Genomics (year: 2017, volume: -, pages: 46028), Publisher: Oxford Academic
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/bfgp/elx033 – link to the publication

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