FIOCRUZ

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Purpose

to develop new diagnostics for severe infectious diseases and identify emerging pathogens by establishing metagenomic next generation sequencing in clinical settings in an urban region of Brazil within an infectious disease ‘hot spot’

Division

Global Health

Date

May 2019

Region Served

GLOBAL

Committed amount

$130,000

Grant topic

Discovery and Translational Sciences

Duration (months)

71

Grantee location

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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