• Preventing meningitis in teenagers vaccinated against MenB as babies: is one booster dose enough?
  • Investigating whether a single dose of the MenB vaccine is enough to boost teenagers’ immunity gained from infant MenB vaccination
  • Category: Prevention
  • Organization: University of Oxford, UK

• Are meningococci more abundant in the throats of teenagers with common wintertime viruses?
  • Are teenagers with wintertime viral infections such as influenza more likely to carry high numbers of meningococcal bacteria and therefore be more infectious?
  • Category: Prevention
  • Organization: University of Bristol, UK

• Pioneering research that could eventually help stop loss of limbs from meningitis
  • Understanding meningococcus-induced blood clotting – working towards new therapeutics for purpura fulminans
  • Category: Diagosis & Treatment
  • Organization: Institut Necker, Paris, France

• Using new genomic techniques to identify the causes of meningitis in UK children
  • Improving the speed, accuracy and cost of diagnosing meningitis in children in the UK by using new genomic techniques
  • Category: Diagnosis & Treatment
  • Organization: University of Oxford; Public Health England; St. Mary’s Hospital; University of London; University of Liverpool; UK

• Improving survival in HIV-infected adults at risk of cryptococcal meningitis
  • Investigating the causes of severe illness and death in HIV-infected cryptococcal positive patients
  • Category: Diagnosis & Treatment
  • Organization: St. George’s University of London; UK, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

• Vaccinating expectant mothers against MenA
  • Protecting newborn infants from meningococcal A infection and meningitis
  • Category: Prevention
  • Organization: MRC Unit, Banjul, The Gambia, University of Cambridge, UK, LSHTM, London, UK, PHE, Manchester, UK, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

• Defining meningitis in UK children in the conjugate vaccine era
  • Determining the current causes of childhood meningitis
  • Category: Diagnosis & Treatment
  • Organization: University of Oxford, UK, St Mary’s Hospital, UK, St George’s Hospital, University of London, UK, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, UK

• TB meningitis – Imperial College and Francis Crick Institute
  • Improving treatment outcomes in tuberculosis (TB) meningitis
  • Category: Diagnosis & Treatment
  • Organization: Imperial College London and Francis Crick Institute, London.

• Meningococcal disease – Bristol
  • Creation of sample collection from “Be on the TEAM” study throat swabs for molecular (PCR) analysis of meningococcal carriage and carriage density
  • Category: Diagnosis & Treatment
  • Organization:University of Bristol.

• Meningococcal disease London
  • Babies born Early Antibody Response to Men B vaccination
  • Category: Diagnosis & Treatment
  • Organization: St George’s, University of London

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(1) Meningitis Research Foundation. Research Projects.
htps://www.meningitis.org/research-projects
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(2) Meningitis Now. Current Research Projects.
​https://www.meningitisnow.org/meningitis-explained/research/current-research-projects