Replicating Vaccines: A New Generation

Book Overview

SECTION 1: Today's Live Attenuated Vaccines.- Live Vaccines and their Role in Modern Vaccinology.- Live Attenuated Vaccines: Influenza, Rotavirus and Varicella Zoster.- Classical Live Viral Vaccines.- SECTION 2: Genetically Attenuated Micro-Organisms as Vaccines.- Recombinant Live Vaccines to Protect Against the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.- Live Attenuated Shigella Vaccines. Is encouraging good enough?.- New generation BCG vaccines.- SECTION 3: Manipulating Host-Pathogen Interactions to Make Vaccines.- Basic Science Paves the Way to Novel Safe and Effective Pestivirus Vaccines.- Live Attenuated Influenza Virus Vaccines: NS1 Truncation as an Approach to Virus Attenuation Approaches.- An Attenuated Herpes implex Virus 1 Live Virus Vaccine Candidate that is Replication Competent but Defective in Epithelial Cell to Cell and Neuronal Spread.- RSV Deletion Mutant - Innate Immunity.- Live Attenuated Cholera Vaccines: Flagella and Reactogenicity.- SECTION 4: New Types of Replicating Vaccines.- Replication-defective Herpes simplex Virus Mutant Strains as Genital Herpes Vaccines and Vaccine Vectors.- Nucleic Acid-Based Infectious and Pseudo-Infectious Flavivirus Vaccines.- Application of Cleavage Activation Mutants of Influenza Virus as Live Vaccines.- Alphavirus Particle-based Vaccine Vectors.- Recombinant, Chimeric, Live, Attenuated Vaccines against Flaviviruses and Alphaviruses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034803168
• ISBN13: 9783034803168
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 447 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"