Open menu
View all research projects
Research project

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
Other researchers

Professor Ian Clarke

Professor of Virology

Research interests

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

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

Professor Paediatric Immunology & Infect

Research outputs

A recombinant commensal bacteria elicits heterologous antigen-specific immune responses during pharyngeal carriage
Jay R Laver,
Diane Gbesemete,
Adam P Dale,
Zoe C Pounce,
Carl N Webb,
Eleanor F Roche,
Graham Berreen,
Konstantinos Belogiannis,
Alison R Hill,
Muktar M Ibrahim,
David W Cleary,
Anish K Pandey,
Holly E Humphries,
Lauren Allen,
Hans de Graaf,
Martin C Maiden,
Saul N Faust,
Andrew R Gorringe,
& Robert C Read
, 2021 , Science Translational Medicine , 13 (601)
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abe8573
Type: article
Antibiotics for lower respiratory tract infection in children presenting in primary care in England (ARTIC PC)
Paul Little,
Nick A Francis,
Beth Stuart,
Gilly O'Reilly,
Natalie Thompson,
Taeko Becque,
Alastair D Hay,
Kay Wang,
Michael Sharland,
Anthony Harnden,
Guiqing Yao,
James Raftery,
Shihua Zhu,
Joseph Little,
Charlotte Hookham,
Kate Rowley,
Joanne Euden,
Kim Harman,
Samuel Coenen,
Robert C Read,
Catherine Woods,
Christopher C Butler,
Saul N Faust,
Geraldine Leydon,
Mandy Wan,
Kerenza Hood,
Jane Whitehurst,
Samantha Richards-Hall,
Peter Smith,
Michael Thomas,
Michael Moore,
& Theo Verheij
, 2021 , The Lancet , 398 (10309) , 1417--1426
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01431-8
Type: article
ACCORD
,
Tom Wilkinson,
Rupert Dixon,
Clive Page,
Miles Carroll,
Gareth Griffiths,
Ling-Pei Ho,
Anthony De Soyza,
Timothy Felton,
Keir E Lewis,
Karen Phekoo,
James D Chalmers,
Anthony Gordon,
Lorcan McGarvey,
Jillian Doherty,
Robert C Read,
Manu Shankar-Hari,
Nuria Martinez-Alier,
Michael O'Kelly,
Graeme Duncan,
Roelize Walles,
James Sykes,
Charlotte Summers,
& Dave Singh
, 2020 , Trials , 21 , 691
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-020-04584-9
Type: article
Controlled human infection with Bordetella pertussis induces asymptomatic, immunising colonisation
Hans de Graaf,
Muktar Ibrahim,
Alison R Hill,
Diane Gbesemete,
Andrew T Vaughan,
Andrew Gorringe,
Andrew Preston,
Annemaire M Buisman,
Saul Faust,
Kent E. Kester,
Guy Berbers,
Dimitri A. Diavatopoulos,
& Robert Read
, 2020 , Clinical Infectious Diseases , 71 (2) , 403--411
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz840
Type: article
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