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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.

"Did you know...?"

From the Town Hall, through pubs, up to shopping centres – throughout October, teams from Paediatrics have been showcasing their work all over Oxford as part of the Ideas Festival.

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We are committed to providing high quality education and training, together with research updates for medical professionals and all those involved in the area of vaccines and paediatric and adult infectious diseases.

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.

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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Vaccines are a key component of global health policy and are essential in the defence of the health of young children. Our research focuses on the development and evaluation of new and improved vaccines.

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"Did you know...?"

9 November 2018
Halting the spread of salmonella

12 October 2018
Vaccinations and the fight against poverty

31 July 2018
Pregnant women invited to take part in pioneering diabetes prevention research

16 July 2018

Latest publications

Publisher Correction: Clonal analysis of Salmonella-specific effector T cells reveals serovar-specific and cross-reactive T cell responses.
Journal article

Napolitani G. et al, (2019), Nature immunology
Assessing the Impact of a Vi-polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine in Preventing Typhoid Infection Among Bangladeshi Children: A Protocol for a Phase IIIb Trial.
Journal article

Theiss-Nyland K. et al, (2019), Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 68, S74 - S82
The design and analysis of seroefficacy studies for typhoid conjugate vaccines
Journal article

LIU X. et al, (2019), Clinical Infectious Diseases

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How does herd immunity work?

‘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.