Challenges and Opportunities of mRNA Vaccines Against SARS-CoV-2 : A Multidisciplinary Perspective /

This book offers an analytical look at the much debated risks and benefits of the newly developed COVID-19 mRNA-vaccines. As such, it is one of the first books to give a comprehensive overview of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and the only one that addresses this topic from a broad multidisciplinary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mueller, Siguna (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Part I: Scientifi Underpinnings, early expectations, and emerging challenges from the global inoculation experience
  • Chapter 2: Appraisal of Some of the Key Postulates Underlying mRNA Vaccines
  • Chapter 3: Relevance for mRNA vaccine safety
  • Chapter 4: From Challenges to Opportunities and Open Questions
  • Chapter 5: The challenge of evaluating vaccine safety and effectiveness
  • Chapter 6: Safeguarding against the analog of antimicrobial-resistance development
  • Chapter 7: Scales, pseudoscales, the human factor, and a way forward
  • Part II: A deeper dive into mRNA vaccine safety and security, and developments until Delta
  • Chapter 8: mRNA Vaccine safety and efficacy - official criteria when AEs are caused by the injection
  • Chapter 9: mRNA Covid-19 vaccines best reflect effective pharmaceuticals - basic considerations and LNPs
  • Chapter 10: mRNA Covid-19 pharmaceuticals and the spike antigen
  • Chapter 11: Other facets of SARS-CoV-2 immunity, the risk of immune tolerance and T cell exhaustion
  • Part III: The Omicron variants
  • Chapter 12: Omicron
  • Chapter 13: Conclusion.