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Paediatrics celebrates International Clinical Trials Day

Sign up to take part in our clinical trials, talk to the research staff, or simply enjoy a Microbe Mugshot Match or a Game of Crohn's (Disease).

How was typhoid eliminated in the past?

Drs Samantha Vanderslott and Claas Kirchhelle introduce their typhoid history research and 'Alice in Typhoidland' public engagement project. This work delves into the history of typhoid in Oxford and highlights why typhoid is still a major global health problem needing both water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions alongside vaccines.

Halting the spread of salmonella

There are between 11 and 27 million estimated cases of enteric fever worldwide every year, and 75,000–220,000 deaths. Could vaccination stop the spread of these diesases in the environment?

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.

How 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.

Pregnant 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.

BE 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!

Good news in the fight against typhoid: new vaccine study shows promising results

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Paediatrics celebrates international clinical trials day

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Identification of regulatory variants associated with genetic susceptibility to meningococcal disease.
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Borghini L. et al, (2019), Sci Rep, 9
Immunogenicity profiling of protein antigens from capsular group B Neisseria meningitidis.
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Awanye AM. et al, (2019), Sci Rep, 9
PERISCOPE: road towards effective control of pertussis.
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PERISCOPE Consortium None., (2019), Lancet Infect Dis, 19, e179 - e186

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‘Herd immunity’ or 'herd protection' gives protection to vulnerable people such as newborn babies, elderly people and those who are too sick to be vaccinated.