Be on the TEAM: TEenagers Against Meningitis
The Oxford Vaccine Group are inviting students in school year 12 to take part in a research project to understand whether immunising teenagers with vaccines against ‘Meningitis B’ could protect them and the rest of the community against these potentially deadly bacteria. This is a national study involving 24 000 year 12 students across the United Kingdom. Teenagers at participating schools are being asked to take part by local research teams involved.
Read morePregnant women invited to take part in pioneering diabetes prevention research
Dr Matthew Snape leads a study investigating if giving small amounts of oral insulin to babies can prevent type 1 diabetes, thus allowing mothers to protect their children from injecting insulin.
Read moreNHS features the Meningitis B vaccine in its "70 years, 70 discoveries" campaign
The National Health Service named Oxford Vaccine Group’s Meningitis B vaccination programme one of the 70 most transformative discoveries over the past 70 years.
Read moreHow do vaccines work?
To understand how vaccines work, it helps to look first at how the immune system works, because vaccines harness the natural activity of your immune system. This short animation explains how vaccines enable the body to make the right sort of antibodies to fight a particular disease.
Read moreInternational Clinical Trials Day at the Children's Hospital
Why do we celebrate the International Clinical Trials Day?
Read moreBE ON THE TEAM: TEENAGERS AGAINST MENINGITIS
Visit http://beontheteam.uk/ or http://trials.ovg.ox.ac.uk/trials/be-on-the-team
Take part in a clinical trial – see a list of all the trials we are currently recruiting to.
stop TYPHOID An educational resource about typhoid – visit http://www.stoptyphoid.org
If you're not immune to measles you can catch it just by going into a room up to 2 hours after an infected person has left it!
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How do vaccines work?
25 May 2018
Latest publications
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Clonal analysis of Salmonella-specific effector T cells reveals serovar-specific and cross-reactive T cell responses.
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Napolitani G. et al, (2018), Nature immunology
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Change in viral bronchiolitis management in hospitals in the UK after the publication of NICE guideline.
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Barr R. et al, (2018), J Clin Virol, 105, 84 - 87
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Compositional and Functional Differences in the Human Gut Microbiome Correlate with Clinical Outcome following Infection with Wild-Type Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi.
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Zhang Y. et al, (2018), mBio, 9
