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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825152603321

Titolo

Influenza vaccines for the future / / Rino Rappuoli, Giuseppe Del Giudice, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel ; ; Boston, : Birkhäuser, c2008

ISBN

3-7643-8371-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Birkhäuser advances in infectious diseases

Altri autori (Persone)

RappuoliRino

Del GiudiceGiuseppe

Disciplina

614.5/18

Soggetti

Influenza vaccines

Influenza

Influenza viruses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 genetics. This volume provides a historical background and state-of-the-art information about the recent advances in the biology of influenza and the design of new influenza vaccines.