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Scientific archive


Research archive for the scientific community

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

Click on the title of the project to find out more.

A cross-sectional study of nasophayngeal carriage in teenagers prior to vaccination with the New Zealand OMV meningococcal B vaccine

Prevention; University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Development and evaluation of a novel test for rapid diagnosis and typing of bacterial meningitis

Detection; Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.

Development of meningococcal vaccines that target colonisation factors

Prevention; Imperial College London - Centre for Molecular Microbiology (London, England).

Pathways that determine the endotoxic and adjuvant properties of meningococcal lipopolysaccharide

Prevention; University Medical Center, Utrecht.

The role of the collectins in determining innate susceptibility to meningococcal disease

Prevention; University of Sheffield.

Analysis of putative vaccine antigens from streptococcus pneumoniae

Prevention; University of Sussex.

Vaccine potential of proteins encoded on a virulence-associated genomic island in Neisseria meningitidis

Prevention;  L'Université René Descartes, Paris.

The diversity of meningococcal Opa proteins and their human receptor: implications for disease susceptibility and vaccine design

Prevention; John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford.

Development of an experimental transgenic mouse model for meningococcal colonisation and disease

Prevention; University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Characterisation of Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence factors and development of a proteins-based vaccine

Prevention; Adelaide University, Australia.

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Page last updated 01.06.07

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