Study defines level of dengue virus needed for transmission
Researchers have identified the dose of Dengue virus in human blood that is required to infect mosquitoes when they bite. Mosquitoes are essential for transmitting the virus between people so the findings have important implications for understanding how to slow the spread of the disease. By defining the threshold of the amount of virus needed […]
Exchanges at the Frontier with Jeremy Farrar
What happens when a philosopher interviews a scientist about their work? On November 22nd, our Director, Jeremy Farrar found out he was interviewed by philosopher AC Grayling and a public audience about our work in a medical research unit in Southeast Asia. Jeremy talked about the Hospital and Unit’s groundbreaking work on a number of […]
Risk factors for Salmonella in Vietnamese children
In recent work published from the Enterics group at OUCRU, non-typhoidal Salmonella were found to be an important cause of paediatric gastroenteritis in Ho Chi Minh City. Non-typhoidal Salmonella are an important but poorly characterised cause of paediatric diarrhoea in developing countries. From a large hospital based case-control study in Ho Chi Minh City, 5% […]