Professor Adam Finn
Professor of Paediatrics
UHB Education Centre, Upper Maudlin Street
Bristol, BS2 8AE
phone: +44 (0)117 342 0172
email: helen.barr@bristol.ac.uk (Personal Assistant)
group: Bristol Children's Vaccine Centre (BCVC)
Research Interests
- Microbial and host interactions in the human upper respiratory tract and pathogenesis of bacterial respiratory and invasive infections in children
- Respiratory mucosal naturally-acquired and vaccine-induced immunity to pneumococcus and other bacteria
- Clinical trials of vaccines and antimicrobial agents in children
Recent Publications
- Rodrigues, F., Morales-Aza, B., Holland, R., Gould, K., Hinds, J., Gonçalves, G., Januário, L. and Finn, A. (2013) Resurgence of Serotype 19F carriage in preschool children in Portugal in the context of continuing moderate conjugate Pneumococcal vaccine uptake. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2013 Apr 26. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.PMID: 23575193
- Khatami, A., Snape, M.D., Ohene-Kena, B., Young, K., Oeser, C., Michaelis, L.J., Macleod, E., Smee, H., Van Der Meeren, O., Leyssen, M., Caubet, M., Yu, L.M., Heath, P.T., Faust, S.N., Finn, A. and Pollard, A.J. (2013) Phase II study of a three-dose primary vaccination course of DTPa-IPV/Hib-MenC-TT followed by a 12-month Hib-MenC-TT booster in healthy infants. Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. 2013 Jan 23. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23348809
- Rodrigues, F., Iturriza-Gómara, M., Marlow, R., Gray, J., Nawaz, S., Januário, L. and Finn, A. (2013) The evolving epidemiology of rotavirus gastroenteritis in central Portugal with modest vaccine coverage. J. Clin. Virol. 56(2), 129-134. PMID: 23238239
- Rodrigues, F., Foster, D., Nicoli, E., Trotter, C., Vipond, B., Muir, P., Goncalves, G., Januário, L. and Finn, A. (2013) Relationships between rhinitis symptoms, respiratory viral infections and nasopharyngeal colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Staphylococcus aureus in children attending daycare. Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. 32(3), 227-232. PMID: 2355832
- Rodrigues, F., Foster, D., Caramelo, F., Serranho, P., Gonçalves, G., Januário, L. and Finn, A. (2012) Progressive changes in pneumococcal carriage in children attending daycare in Portugal after 6 years of gradual conjugate vaccine introduction show falls in most residual vaccine serotypes but no net replacement or trends in diversity. Vaccine 30(26), 3951-3956. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.03.058 Epub 2012 Apr 3 PMID: 22480926
- Clarke, E.T., Williams, N.A., Dull, P.M., Findlow, J., Borrow, R., Finn, A. and Heyderman, R.S. (2012) Polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccination induces antibody production but not sustained B-cell memory in the human nasopharyngeal mucosa. Mucosal Immunol. 2012 Jul 18. doi: 10.1038/mi.2012.70 Epub ahead of print PMID: 22806100
- Gossger, N., Snape, M.D., Yu, L-M., Finn, A., Bona, G., Esposito, S., Principi, N., Diez-Domingo, J., Sokal, E., Becker, B., Kieninger, D., Prymula, R., Dull, P., Ypma, E., Toneatto, D., Kimura, A., Pollard, A.J. (2012) Immunogenicity and tolerability of recombinant meningococcal serogroup B vaccine administered with or without routine infant vaccinations according to different immunization schedules: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA 307(6), 573-582. PMID: 22318278
- Walker, W.T., de Whalley, P., Andrews, N., Oeser, C., Casey, M., Michaelis, L., Hoschler, K., Harrill, C., Moulsdale, P., Thompson, B., Jones, C., Chalk, J., Kerridge, S., John, T.M., Okike, I., Ladhani, S., Tomlinson, R., Heath, P.T., Miller, E., Faust, S.N., Snape, M.D., Finn, A. and Pollard, A.J. (2012) H1N1 antibody persistence one year after immunisation with an adjuvanted or whole virion pandemic vaccine and immunogenicity and reactogenicity of subsequent seasonal influenza vaccine: a multi-centre follow-on study. Clin. Infect. Dis. 54(5), 661-669. Epub 2012 Jan 19 doi:10.1093/cid/cir905 PMID: 22267719