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  title info:
    title: Mass Vaccination: Global Aspects — Progress and Obstacles
  name:
    name part: Plotkin, Stanley A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 274 p. online resource.
  abstract: Mass immunization is the blitzkrieg of vaccination practice. It serves to rapidly protect populations, both because of the high coverage achieved and because of the herd immunity thereby induced. However, as in war, mass immunization campaigns must be conducted intelligently, with careful strategy and strong attention to logistics of supply and deployment. If conducted badly, mass immunization may fail or even be counter-productive. In this volume, some of the most successful practitioners of mass im- nization tell us about its art and science. David Heymann and Bruce Aylward of WHO begin the book with a theoretical and practical overview of mass immunization. Michael Lane, who participated in the successful effort to eradicate smallpox relates how this was done using mass vaccination and other strategies. Application of mass immunization by the US military is c- ered by John Grabenstein and Remington Nevin, who have a large experience in these matters. Karen Noakes and David Salisbury recount the striking s- cesses of mass immunization in the United Kingdom. The global control of the clostridia that produce diphtheria toxin is described by Charles Vitek. Hepa- tis A is decreasing dramatically under the impact of large-scale vaccination, as Francis André illustrates. The French experience with Hepatitis B vac- nation has been mixed, and François Denis and Daniel Levy-Bruhl explain the circumstances. In?uenza vaccination is an annual example of large-scale campaigns, the complexity of which is recounted by Benjamin Schwartz and Pascale Wortley.
  table of contents: Mass Vaccination: When and Why -- Mass Vaccination and Surveillance/Containment in the Eradication of Smallpox -- Mass Immunization Programs: Principles and Standards -- Immunization Campaigns in the UK -- Diphtheria -- Universal Mass Vaccination Against Hepatitis A -- Mass Vaccination Against Hepatitis B: The French Example -- Mass Vaccination for Annual and Pandemic Influenza -- Is Global Measles Eradication Feasible? -- Measles Aerosol Vaccination -- Mass Vaccination Campaigns for Polio Eradication: An Essential Strategy for Success -- Rubella Mass Campaigns -- Mass Vaccination to Control Epidemic and Endemic Typhoid Fever -- Mass Vaccination: Solutions in the Skin.
  note: edited by Stanley A. Plotkin.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Immunology
  subject:
    topic: Biomedicine
  subject:
    topic: Immunology
  classification: QR180-189.5
  classification: 616.079
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 304
  identifier: 9783540365839
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36583-4
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20150519185129.0
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