Melita Alison Gordon CMG FRCP is a gastroenterologist who works on invasive gut pathogens and tropical gastrointestinal disease.
Gordon was awarded the British Society of Gastroenterology Sir Francis Avery Jones Research Medal in 2011.
[4] In 2008 Gordon was made an NHS Higher Education Funding Council for England Clinical Fellow at the University of Liverpool.
It is more likely to occur in patients with HIV infection or malaria and the majority of people who suffer from iNTS are in Sub-Saharan Africa.
[12][13] The Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium (TyVAC) study was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and was the result of twenty years of research of Salmonella in Malawi.
[11][14] The vaccine, which contains the Vi antigen [15] (a part of the Salmonella Typhi bacterium that helps it cause disease), is expected to protect against typhoid and other infections.