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Prof R. Read: MRC Experimental Human Challenge with Genetically Modified Commensals to Investigate Respiratory Tract Mucosal Immunity and Colonisation

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Robert Read

Chair of Infectious Diseases
Connect with Robert

Email: R.C.Read@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Ian Clarke

Professor of Virology

Research interests

  • Transposon mutagenesis of Chlamydia species
  • Cell culture systems and replicons for human noroviruses
Connect with Ian

Email: inc@soton.ac.uk

Professor Saul Faust MBBS, FRCPCH, PhD, FHEA, OBE

Professor Paediatric Immunology & Infect
Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Exploring the acceptability of controlled human infection with SARSCoV2 – a public consultation
Diane Gbesemete, Mary Barker, Wendy Lawrence, Daniella Watson, Hans De Graaf & Robert Read, 2020, BMC Medicine, 18(1), 1-8
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01670-2
Type: article
Neisseria meningitidis and meningococcal disease
Robert C Read, 2019, Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 32(6), 601-608
DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000606
Type: review
The nonpathogenic commensal Neisseria
Robert B Dorey, Anastasia A Theodosiou, Robert C Read & Christine E Jones, 2019, Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 32(5), 490-496
DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000585
Type: review
Alveolar macrophage apoptosis-associated bacterial killing helps prevent murine pneumonia
Julie A. Preston, Martin A. Bewley, Helen M. Marriott, A. McGarry Houghton, Mohamed Mohasin, Jamil Jubrail, Lucy Morris, Yvonne L. Stephenson, Simon Cross, David R. Greaves, Ruth W. Craig, Nico van Rooijen, Colin D. Bingle, Robert C. Read, Timothy J. Mitchell, Moira K. B. Whyte, Steven D. Shapiro & David H. Dockrell, 2019, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 200(1), 84-97
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201804-0646OC
Type: article
Protocol for a controlled human infection with genetically modified Neisseria lactamica expressing the meningococcal vaccine antigen NadA
Diane Gbesemete, Jay Robert Laver, Hans de Graaf, Muktar Ibrahim, Andrew Vaughan, Saul Faust, Andrew Gorringe & Robert Charles Read, 2019, BMJ Open, 9(4), e026544
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026544
Type: article