Parasitic Disease Wastewater Surveillance to Inform Public Health Action in Remote Northern Queensland
Role
Student
Description
Intestinal parasites are chronic, preventable infectious diseases of poverty that disproportionately affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in northern Australia. Public Health Surveillance for these diseases is time-consuming, costly, difficult and intrusive, requiring faecal and blood testing of community members. This project will validate and pilot the use of wastewater testing for the surveillance of important intestinal parasites, including strongyloidiasis, whipworm, giardiasis, and amoebic dysentery infecting people in north Queensland. The use of wastewater sampling will augment the capacity for public health surveillance by facilitating time and cost-efficient parasitic disease surveillance simultaneously in multiple communities.
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Funding Body
Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre Limited
Amount
48690
Project Team
Richard Bradbury;Constantin Constantinoui