Vaccines /

This book provides our present basic understanding of how the immune system functions during infections and vaccinations. The most recent methodological advances in vaccine technology such as nucleic acid vaccines are described and a broad coverage of the vaccine situation against all major infectio...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bergström, T. (Tomas), Perlmann, Peter, Wigzell, Hans, 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1999]
Series:Handbook of experimental pharmacology ; v. 133.
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Table of Contents:
  • Vaccines: past, present and future
  • Immunology of infection
  • DNA vaccines: immunogenicity and preclinical efficacy
  • Antigen-presentation systems, immunomodulators, and immune responses to vaccines
  • Vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella
  • Hepatitis and polio vaccines
  • Herpes
  • Toxin-based vaccines (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis)
  • Outer membrane protein vaccines
  • Carbohydrate-based bacterial vaccines
  • Mycoabacteria
  • Vaccines against diarrheal diseases
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • Desgining a vaccine against HIV
  • An overview of malaria vaccine development efforts
  • Antifertility vaccines
  • Cancer vaccines
  • Prevention of autoimmunity
  • Vacines against allergies.