Plant-produced Microbial Vaccines

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Karasev, Alexander V. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 332
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Pharmacology.; Virology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Medical Microbiology.

In recent years, plants have been increasingly explored for production of biomedicines and vaccine components. The two main advantages of plant systems are low cost and a greater potential for scalability as compared to microbial or animal systems. An additional advantage from the public health poin...

Table of Contents:

• Plant Vaccines: An Immunological Perspective
• Display of Peptides on the Surface of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Particles
• Chloroplast-Derived Vaccine Antigens and Biopharmaceuticals: Expression, Folding, Assembly and Functionality
• Production of Antibodies in Plants: Approaches and Perspectives
• Plant Production of Veterinary Vaccines and Therapeutics
• Plant-Based Oral Vaccines: Results of Human Trials.