** Shares of Australia's Lumos Diagnostics rise as much as 16.2% to A$0.043, their highest levels since Sept 6
** Stock posts its biggest intraday pct gain since Sept 25, on track to record its second straight day of gains, if trend holds
** The medical equipment supplier says it has been awarded A$3 mln ($2.06 mln) in funding from Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' administration
** Funding to support upcoming Lumos' FebriDx CLIA waiver study and the U.S. FDA application
** FebriDx can aid clinicians with appropriate antibiotic use decisions and will hopefully improve antibiotic stewardship - LDX
** Near 6.7 mln shares change hands, vs 30-day average volume of 5.4 mln shares
** Stock has fallen 38.7% this year, as of 0044 GMT
($1 = 1.4535 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Roshan Thomas in Bengaluru)
((Roshan.Thomas@thomsonreuters.com))
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