Vaccine Research and Development: Volume 1: - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082478619X ISBN 13: 9780824786199

Publisher: CRC Press, 1992

Synopsis

Serving as a complementary series to AIDS Research Reviews - edited by Drs. Wayne C. Koff, Flossie Wong-Staal, and Ronald C. Kennedy (Marcel Dekker, Inc.) - this new series reviews significant advances in immunization research and addresses scientific and public policy challenges for moving candidate vaccines from the laboratory to the population.;Exploring recent progress in immunology, vaccine development and improvement, and clinical trials, Vaccine Research and Developments: analyzes the capacity of lipophilic components to chemically modify peptide and protein antigens and augment their immunogenicity; discusses the potential of noninfectious packaging mutants to serve as prototype vaccines; provides a novel presentation system for peptide vaccines through the multiple antigen peptide approach; examines the current status and future prospects for contraceptive vaccines and offers perspectives for improving pertussis vaccines; furnishes a comprehensive update of vaccine clinical trials; and describes the legal policy aspects involved in developing HIV vaccines.;Containing over 915 useful references, Vaccine Research and Developments is for immunologists, microbiologists and virologists, molecular and cell biologists, infectious disease specialists, pharmacologists, government and industry drug regulatory personnel, and graduate level students in these disciplines.

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About the Author

Wayne C. Koff; Howard R. Six

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082478619X
• ISBN 13: 9780824786199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Koff Wayne C., Six Howard R.