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Influenza vaccines for the future /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rappuoli, Rino, Del Giudice, Giuseppe, Dr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, ©2008.
Colección:Birkhäuser advances in infectious diseases.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.