Intradermal Immunization

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Teunissen, Marcel B.M (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 351
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Vaccines.; Dermatology.; Biomedicine.; Vaccine.

Despite the impressive success of current vaccine programs, there remains a need to improve the effectiveness of current vaccines. A more powerful and longer lasting immune response induced by smaller and fewer doses of vaccine is an exciting challenge. Improvement of effectiveness also enables indu...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Understanding the murine cutaneous dendritic cell network to improve intradermal vaccination strategies
• Insight into the immunobiology of human skin and cutaneous dendritic cell subsets to perfection intradermal vaccination design
• Delivery systems for intradermal vaccination
• Targeting skin dendritic cells to improve intradermal immunization
• Intradermal Rabies vaccination: the evolution and future of pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis
• Intradermal vaccination to protect against yellow fever and influenza
• The dermis as a portal for dendritic cell-targeted immunotherapy of cutaneous melanoma
• DNA vaccines and intradermal vaccination by DNA tattooing
• Subject index.