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Limited impact of adolescent meningococcal ACWY vaccination on Neisseria meningitides serogroup W carriage in university students (2017)
Journal Article
Oldfield, N. J., Green, L. R., Parkhill, J., Bayliss, C. D., & Turner, D. P. (2018). Limited impact of adolescent meningococcal ACWY vaccination on Neisseria meningitides serogroup W carriage in university students. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 217(4), 608-616. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jix596

Background In the UK rising disease levels due to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W clonal complex ST-11 (MenW:cc11) strains led to introduction of conjugate MenACWY vaccination for teenagers. We investigated the impact of immunization on carriag... Read More about Limited impact of adolescent meningococcal ACWY vaccination on Neisseria meningitides serogroup W carriage in university students.

Rise in Group W Meningococcal Carriage in University Students, United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Oldfield, N. J., Cayrou, C., AlJannat, M. A., Al-Rubaiawi, A. A., Green, L. R., Dada, S., …Turner, D. P. (2017). Rise in Group W Meningococcal Carriage in University Students, United Kingdom. Emerging Infectious Disease, 23(6), 1009-1011. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2306.161768

MenACWY conjugate vaccination was recently introduced in the UK for adolescents and 24 young adults to reduce disease due to Neisseria meningitidis group W (MenW). We 25 conducted a cross-sectional carriage study in first year university students. De... Read More about Rise in Group W Meningococcal Carriage in University Students, United Kingdom.

Moonlighting Functions of Bacterial Fructose 1,6-Bisphosphate Aldolases (2017)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, N. J., Shams, F., Wooldridge, K. G., & Turner, D. P. (2017). Moonlighting Functions of Bacterial Fructose 1,6-Bisphosphate Aldolases. In B. Henderson (Ed.), Moonlighting Proteins: Novel Virulence Factors in Bacterial Infections (321-331). Wiley

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Moonlighting proteins are multifunctional proteins which perform two or more biochemical functions using a single polypeptide chain. Moonlighting proteins have been documented in diverse organisms, including archaea,... Read More about Moonlighting Functions of Bacterial Fructose 1,6-Bisphosphate Aldolases.