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KAWASAKI:(Kawasaki(Disease(R(Disentangling(the(Role(of( Climate(in(the(Outbreaks(( !
Group&Structure& •
Principal!Investigator:!Xavier!Rodó!
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Josep>Anton!Morguí!
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Joan!Ballester!
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Roger!Curcoll!
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Carlos!Dommar!
Funding&Type& Privately!funded!project:!La!Marató!de!TV3!Foundation!
Goals& •
To!create!a!worldwide!database!about!Kawasaki!disease!incidence!
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To!diagnose!the!structure!of!Kawasaki!disease!in!its!different!morbidity!temporal!series.!!
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To!search! for! and! identify! the! process! that! regulates!Kawasaki! disease! incidence!in! those! places!where! the!illness!has!a!higher!incidence.!To!describe!the!illness’!seasonal!and!interannual!mechanisms.!
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To!analyze!the!big!scale!climate!patterns!and,!if!necessary,!to!analyze!the!synoptic!situations!at!regional! level!that!are!associated!to!epidemic!illness!peaks.!!
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To!create!a!prediction!model!for!the!Kawasaki!disease!in!places!with!a!greater!incidence!of!this!illness,!as! far!as!is!possible!and!depending!on!the!results!obtained!from!the!sections!above.!
All!these!objectives!are!ultimately!focused!on!building!the!basis!for!identifying!the!agent!responsible!for!Kawasaki! disease.!
Project&Overview& The!Kawasaki!project!is!an!international!research!consortium!of!research!and!academic!institutions!from!across! Europe.! The! consortium! works! together,! studying! the! origin! of! Kawasaki! disease! in! depth.! According! to! preliminary! results! obtained! by! a! study! carried! out! by! the! director! of! this! project,! Kawasaki! disease! seems! to! have! an! environmental! cause.! This! project! focuses! on! analyzing! this! probability! by! creating! and! interpreting! a! Kawasaki! disease!database.! The! most! up>to>date! databases! and!those! with! a!higher! resolution!are! analyzed! in! order!to!find!signs!of!the!disease.!IC3!has!created!some!specific!analysis!techniques!for!this!purpose.! The!Kawasaki!project!started!in!March!2009!and!is!expected!to!finish!by!February!2012.!