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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:

fourth-generation sequencing Corynebacterium diphtheriae virulence factors

Descriptors:

  • NZ6_4: Bacteriology

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)

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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 (Y-m-d): 2016-03-15

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-09-14

Project duration:: 78 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

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

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (3)
  1. Zastosowanie sekwencjonowania pełnogenomowego do genotypowania bakterii
    Authors:
    Daria Artyszuk, Tomasz Wołkowicz
    Academic press:
    Postępy Mikrobiologii (rok: 2018, tom: 57, strony: 179-193), Wydawca: 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 (rok: 2017, tom: -, strony: 45297), Wydawca: Oxford Academic
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/bfgp/elx033 - link to the publication
  3. Genomic analysis of Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains iso-lated in 2007-2022 with report of identification of the first non-toxigenic tox gene-bearing strain in Poland
    Authors:
    Tomasz Wołkowicz, Katarzyna Zacharczuk, Aleksandra Anna Zasada
    Academic press:
    International Journal of Molecular Science (rok: 2023, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: nie dotyczy), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Submitted