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Immunotherapy for infectious diseases /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jacobson, Jeffrey M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2002]
Series:Infectious disease (Totowa, N.J.)
Subjects:
Communicable Diseases > therapy.
Immunotherapy > methods.
HIV Infections > immunology.
HIV Infections > therapy.
Immunity.
Viral Vaccines.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Basic principles of immunity
  • Humoral immunity
  • Some basic cellular immunology principles applied to the pathogenesis of infectious diseases
  • Immune defense at mucosal surfaces
  • II. Molecular basis for immunotherapy
  • Production of immunoglobulins and monoclonal antibodies targeting infectious diseases
  • Dendritic cells: their role in the immune response to infectious organisms and their potential use in therapeutic vaccination
  • Cytokines, cytokine antagonists, and growth factors for treating infections
  • Principles of vaccine development
  • III. Immunotherapy for HIV infection
  • Immunopathogenesis of HIV infection
  • Immune reconstitution with antiretroviral chemotherapy
  • Active immunization as therapy for HIV infection
  • Passive immunotherapy for HIV infection
  • Host cell-directed approaches for treating HIV and restoring immune function
  • Gene therapy for HIV-1 infection
  • IV. Immunotherapy for infectious diseases other than HIV
  • Immunotherapy for viral infections other than HIV
  • Immunotherapy for virus-associated malignancies
  • Immunotherapy of bacterial infections and sepsis
  • Immunotherapy for tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections
  • Immunotherapy for fungal infections.