BioResource in Adult Infectious Disease (BioAID) 2024-2029 (BioAid)

Research summary

The principal objective of this first three- year phase of BioAID is to recruit at least 10,000 unselected individuals presenting to hospital with signs and symptoms suggestive of infectious disease with consent to store their DNA, RNA, serum and relevant microbiological isolates with linked details of clinical and microbiological phenotype to permit a range of future research into infectious disease. All samples required for BioAID will be derived either from peripheral whole blood or from samples taken for microbiological diagnosis as part of routine clinical care and all of these samples will be taken prospectively from potential participants once the BioAID project commences. No samples which are currently stored will be accessed as part of BioAID. Individuals who represent potential BioAID participants will be identified during their presentation to an acute assessment unit (either an Emergency Department or Acute Admissions Unit) in a hospital which is affiliated to a participating Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The only criteria for potential inclusion is for the potential participant to have their blood sampled for culture of microbiological organisms on a presumption of an infectious cause for their symptoms which would be done as part of their routine clinical care and for the patients to be over 16 years of age.

Principal Investigator

Dr Alex Mentzer

Contact us

Email: sally.beer@ouh.nhs.uk

IRAS number

259776