Differential diagnosis of infecious lung diseases

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: QLK2-CT-2000-41173

Project closed

Start date 6 July 2000

End date 5 July 2001

Funded under

• Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002

Total cost € 30 000,00

EU contribution € 22 500,00

Coordinated by

KREATECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BV
Netherlands

Objective

Infectious pulmonary diseases form a serious threat to human warfare. Pneumonia continues to be a major health problem despite the availability of potent ant microbial drugs. Bacterial pulmonary diseases are often caused by Streptococcus pneumonia, Mycoplasma pneumonia, Chlamydeous pneumonia, Legion Ella pneumophila, Staphylococcus aurous, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Compromised-compromised hosts, such as HIV patients, form a special target group. Diagnostic test are available for these pulmonary diseases but there is still an urgent need for more accurate and rapid diagnoses. This project will focus on developing a simplified and user-friendly test combining detection of pathogen components (nucleic acids/proteins) and host components (antibodies) with a high diagnostic reliability. In its final format the test allows differential diagnosis of infectious pulmonary diseases. The new and innovative part of the project is that the resulting differential test format will have an appreciable added reliability, as
(I) the combined pathogen and host response test results will increase the sensitivity of the method, and
(ii) the combined testing for the major differential diagnostic causes of lung disease will increase the specificity. The principle of

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• medical and health sciences › clinical medicine › pneumology
• natural sciences › biological sciences › biochemistry › biomolecules › nucleic acids
• natural sciences › biological sciences › biochemistry › biomolecules › proteins
• medical and health sciences › health sciences › infectious diseases › RNA viruses › HIV

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Programme(s)

• FP5-LIFE QUALITY - Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002

Topic(s)

• 1.1.1.-2. - Key action Control of Infectious Diseases

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

EAW - Exploratory awards

Coordinator

KREATECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BV

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 3,Vlierweg 20 ; 1032 LG AMSTERDAM ; Netherlands
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

DIAMED BENELUX N.V.

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Hertoginstraat 82 ; 2300 TURNHOUT
• Total cost: No data