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Completed Research


Research archive for the public

This page contains information about Meningitis Research Foundation funded projects which have completed their course. You can also read about current research projects.

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Investigation into rates of acquisition and carriage of meningococci in university students

Surveillance; University of Nottingham

A study of meningococcal carriage in teenagers prior to vaccination with the New Zealand meningococcal B.

Prevention; University of Auckland, New Zealand

Development of a novel test for bacterial meningitis and septicaemia

Detection; Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham

Meningococcal sugar as a helper to enhance performance of Group B vaccine candidates

Prevention; University Medical Center, Utrecht.

Immunity and susceptibility to meningococcal disease - the role of collectins.

Prevention; University of Sheffield.

Towards a universally protective pneumococcal vaccine - analysis of possible new vaccine candidates

Prevention; University of Sussex.

Meningitis island - vaccine potential of an island of genes found only in epidemic strains of meningococcal bacteria

Prevention; L'Université René Descartes, Paris.

Interaction between bacterial and human receptors: implications for susceptibility and meningococcal vaccine design

Prevention; John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford.

Developing an experimental mouse model for testing group B meningococcal vaccines

Prevention; University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Pneumococcal meningitis - new targets for vaccine development

Prevention; Adelaide University, Australia.

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