Product Description: This volume of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology covers diverse topics related to intradermal immunization. The  chapters highlight the effectiveness of intradermal immunization in experimental animal models or in clinical practice, all supporting the view that intradermal immunization is at least as good as other immunization routes...read more

Recent advances in the field of recombinant antibodies have permitted the manipulation of genes encoding specific antibodies, thus allowing their ectopic expression in a wide variety of non-lymphoid cells. This volume describes how the ectopic expression of antibodies, as secreted or as intracellularly retargeted molecules, can be exploited to block biological functions or to confer new phenotypic traits (e.g. resistance to a virus). This is the first book describing this emerging technology, which is receiving increasing attention for application in many different fields and biological systems - from human gene therapy to plant biotechnology.

Product Description: Immunisation is one of the few preventive interventions of undoubted and proven effectiveness...GPs are thoroughly convinced of the public health arguments in favour of immunization and regard it as an integral part of their clinical practice...read more

Product Description: Fifteen contributions discuss the improvement of existing vaccines and the development and production of new ones, among them, vaccines for hepatitis A & B, malaria, typhoid, cholera, rotavirus infection and other diarrheal diseases, leprosy, rabies, AIDS...read more

Product Description: This book deals with the prospects for making new generations of vaccines, while at the same time placing this effort within the perspective of past failures and successes. It contains the thoughts of leading investigators and covers vaccines against bacteria, viruses and protozoans and the issues of immunology and pathogenesis that are necessary for understanding the strategies being undertaken...read more

Product Description: The development of immunization has been one of the most striking features in the control of infectious disease in the twentieth century. This book takes into account the need for a simple, concise account of immunization procedures not only in the UK and USA but also in other countries, and to this end a special chapter on immunization in developing countries has been included...read more

Product Description: The discovery of specifically acquired immunity which followed the major contributions of Louis Pasteur completely over-shadowed the first studies of the host's natural resistance. Later, the exquisite sensitivity and precision of antigen-antibody reactions made the study of immunochemistry much more attractive than the rather primitive and ambiguous field of non-specific immunity...read more