Influenza Vaccines for the Future

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rappuoli, Rino (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Giudice, Giuseppe Del (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Σειρά: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Virology.; Life sciences.; Biomedicine.; Life Sciences, general.

The threat constituted by the multiple outbreaks of avian influenza during the last few years is urgently calling for the development of new influenza vaccines. Fortunately, a quantum leap in technology has revolutionized the study of influenza and the engineering of new vaccine strains by reverse g...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Influenza virus: The biology of a changing virus
• Influenza vaccines have a short but illustrious history
• The epidemiology of influenza and its control
• Influenza and influenza vaccination in children
• The immune response to influenza A viruses
• Correlates of protection against influenza
• The role of animal models in influenza vaccine research
• Live attenuated influenza vaccine
• MF59: A safe and potent oil in water emulsion adjuvant for influenza vaccines, which induces enhanced protection against virus challenge
• Non-recent history of influenza pandemics, vaccines, and adjuvants
• Waiting for a pandemic
• Modeling influenza pandemic and interventions.