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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.

Launching 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.

Oxford 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).

OSPREA and OVG's recruitment success for study of maternal vaccines against RSV

The Oxford Safer Pregnancy Alliance [OSPREA] and the Oxford Vaccine Group [OVG] have recently undertaken a successful recruitment drive for a study of maternal immunisation to prevent infant Respiratory Syncytial Virus [RSV] infection.

Mildred Iro wins best paediatrics paper of 2017!

Mildred Iro, a Paediatric Research Fellow working with the Oxford Vaccine Group, won the Lorber Prize for the best paediatric publication of 2017 for her work on childhood encephalitis admissions.

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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Launching a typhoid vaccine study in Nepal

18 April 2018
A third of health practitioners do not get vaccinated against flu

4 April 2018
Oxford Vaccine Group leads meningitis vaccine trial for teenagers

28 March 2018
Be on the TEAM: TEenagers Against Meningitis

28 March 2018

Latest publications

A phase III, open-label, randomised multicentre study to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of a booster dose of two different reduced antigen diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis-polio vaccines, when co-administered with measles-mumps-rubella vaccine in 3 and 4-year-old healthy children in the UK.
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Marlow R. et al, (2018), Vaccine
Antenatal vaccination against Group B streptococcus: attitudes of pregnant women and healthcare professionals in the UK towards participation in clinical trials and routine implementation.
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McQuaid F. et al, (2018), Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand, 97, 330 - 340
Management of suspected paediatric meningitis: a multicentre prospective cohort study.
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Ramasamy R. et al, (2018), Archives of disease in childhood

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Taking part in a children's vaccine study

Karla and her daughter Carys talk about their positive experiences of being involved in a MenB vaccine trial. This film was funded by the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.