Influenza vaccines for the future [[electronic resource] /] / Rino Rappuoli, Giuseppe Del Giudice, editors

• Pubblicazione: Basel ; ; Boston, : Birkhäuser, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2008.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.5/18
• Soggetto topico: Influenza vaccines; Influenza; Influenza viruses
• Altri autori: RappuoliRino Del GiudiceGiuseppe
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Influenza vaccines for the future
• ISBN: 3-7643-8371-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782093103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Birkhäuser advances in infectious diseases.