Vaccinations : types, potential complications and health effects / David B. Steen and Howard L. Dyson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steen, David B.

Dyson, Howard L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vaccination.

Vaccines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Vaccinations are considered to be the most effective and cost-effective method of preventing infectious diseases. This book presents current research on vaccinations to treat a variety of diseases including cancer, bacterial meningitis, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis B, and tuberculosis.

Contents:

Immunology of tuberculosis : implications for the development of new therapies and vaccines / Graham A.W. Rook, Keertan Dheda

Vaccinations in health care students from Germany, Iran, Lithuania, and Spain / Joerg Klewar ... [et al.]

Recent topics for hepatitis B vaccination / Viroj Wiwanitkit

Smallpox vaccine stockpile and vaccination policy / Judith A. Johnson

T cell vaccination for multiple sclerosis / Sheri M. Skinner ... [et al.]

Binding properties of antibodies to bacterial casular polysialic acids : implications to vaccination against meningitis / Jukka Hayrinen

Replication-incompetent adenoviral vectors for vaccination / Angelique A.C. Lemckert ... [et al.]

Clinical dendritic cell based cancer vaccination / Anders Elm Pedersen, Annika Berntsen, Inge Marie Svane

Nonviral cancer vaccines : from free antigens to engineered cells / M.J.Herrero

New vaccination strategies for the improvement of DNA vaccines against virus in fish / Carolina Tafalla, Amparo Estepa, Julio Coll.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61324-026-0

OCLC:

701719414