Two new vaccines (Baxter swine flu & GSK swine flu vaccine) have been made against swine flu in response to the pandemic. These vaccines have been tested in adults, but there is less information on how well they work in children. This study will assess these two new vaccines in children aged between six months and twelve years

Improved diagnosis of meningococcal, pneumococcal and group A streptococcal infections

What makes the bug choose your child, how can we find it and how can we stop it? The study is trying to improve our understanding of why some children get sick when others don’t, even though they must have been exposed to the same bugs. We are also trying to develop ways of finding out what has caused an infection, using ways which don’t rely on finding the bug itself (one example of this would be to test urine for evidence of the bug for example). The other part of the study is to use the information we can get from children who are infected by these bugs to help develop vaccines to increase our ability to prevent infections in the first place.

Please note, this collection consists of blood clots but it is listed as plasma. A phase III open-label randomised study, to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of the concomitant administration of V419 (PR5I) given at 2, 3 and 4 months of age with two types of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate (MCC) vaccines given at 3 an 4 months of age, and followed by the administration at 12 months of age of a combined Haemophilus influenza type b-MCC vaccine.

The effects of viral upper respiratory tract infections on bacterial colonisation of the nasopharynx in young healthy children attending day care centres. A single centre prospective longitudinal follow up study.