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.
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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 moreOxford Vaccine Group leads meningitis vaccine trial for teenagers
Researchers are working with schools around the county to find 24,000 volunteers aged 16 to 18 years to take part in the Be on the TEAM (Teenagers Against Meningitis) trial, led by the Oxford Vaccine Group at the Oxford University's Paediatrics Department with funding and support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Read moreLaunching a typhoid vaccine study in Nepal
On November 20, 2017, the Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium (TyVAC) vaccinated the first of 20,000 children against typhoid, successfully launching a study to assess the impact of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) in preventing typhoid among children in Nepal.
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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See moreWhat's new
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How do vaccines work?
25 May 2018
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Support for a new typhoid vaccine
24 April 2018
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Launching a typhoid vaccine study in Nepal
18 April 2018
Latest publications
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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
Journal article
Zhang Y. et al, (2018), MBIO, 9
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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.
Journal article
Zhang Y. et al, (2018), mBio, 9
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Meningococcal disease
Journal article
Pollard AJ., (2018), Ulster Medical Journal, 87, 81 - 82
Upcoming events
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Hot Topics In Infection And Immunity In Children 2018 - The ESPID-Oxford Course
Professor Andrew J Pollard and others
Friday, 29 June 2018 to Sunday, 01 July 2018
