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Prof R. Read: A genetically modified nasopharyngeal commensal as a platform for human bacteriotherapy

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Robert Read

Chair of Infectious Diseases
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Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Ian Clarke

Professor of Virology

Research interests

  • Transposon mutagenesis of Chlamydia species
  • Cell culture systems and replicons for human noroviruses
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Professor Saul Faust MBBS, FRCPCH, PhD, FHEA, OBE

Professor Paediatric Immunology & Infect
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Research outputs

Genomes of Escherichia coli bacteraemia isolates originating from urinary tract foci contain more virulence-associated genes than those from non-urinary foci and neutropaenic hosts
Adam P. Dale, Anish K. Pandey, Richard J. Hesp, Konstantinos Belogiannis, Jay R. Laver, Clifford C. Shone & Robert C. Read, 2018, Journal of Infection, 77(6), 534-543
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2018.10.011
Type: article
Microevolution of Neisseria lactamica during nasopharyngeal colonisation induced by controlled human infection
Anish Pandey, David W. Cleary, Jay R. Laver, Andrew Gorringe, Alice M. Deasy, Adam P. Dale, Paul D. Morris, Xavier Didelot, Martin C.J. Maiden & Robert C. Read, 2018, Nature Communications, 9(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07235-5
Type: article
Malaria systems immunology: Plasmodium vivax induces tolerance during primary infection through dysregulation of neutrophils and dendritic cells
Andres Vallejo Pulido, Robert Read, Myriam Arevalo-Herrera, Socrates Herrera, Timothy Elliott & Marta Polak, 2018, Journal of Infection, 77(5), 440-447
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2018.09.005
Type: article
Summary of the international clinical guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired and ventilator-acquired pneumonia
Antoni Torres, Michael S. Niederman, Jean Chastre, Santiago Ewig, Patricia Fernandez-Vandellos, Hakan Hanberger, Marin Kollef, Gianluigi Li Bassi, Carlos M Luna, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, J. Artur Paiva, Robert C. Read, David Rigau, Jean François Timsit, Tobias Welte & Richard Wunderink, 2018, ERJ Open Research, 4(2), 1-10
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00028-2018
Type: article
HIV gp120 in Lungs of ART-treated individuals impairs alveolar macrophage responses to pneumococci
Paul J. Collini, Martin A. Bewley, Mohamed Mohasin, Helen M. Marriott, Robert F. Miller, Anna-Maria Geretti, Apostolos Beloukas, Athanasios Papadimitropoulos, Robert C. Read, Mahdad Noursadeghi & David H. Dockrell, 2018, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 197(12), 1604-1615
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201708-1755OC
Type: article