Objective
A newly discovered virus, human metapneumovirus (hMPV), responsible for respiratory disease in young children, is closely related to subgroup C isolates of the prototype metapneumovirus, avian pneumovirus (APV). APV is a major cause of significant economic losses in the poultry industry in Europe. Current diagnostic techniques cannot detect these metapneumoviruses and as a result the significance and distribution of hMPV subgroup C APV are not known. Thus the burden of disease from these agents cannot be assessed. The proposal addresses these problems by generating new, standardised, detection and characterisation assays, developed for commercial use. Using reverse genetics techniques for both hMPV and APV, the molecular biology, aspects of pathogenicity and host specificity will be analysed This will also generate recombinant viruses which will be the foundation for future rational vaccine design.
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. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology virology
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases RNA viruses coronaviruses
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs vaccines
- natural sciences biological sciences molecular biology
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Coordinator
COVENTRY
United Kingdom
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