Challenges and opportunities for respiratory syncytial virus vaccines /

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Imprint:Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 409 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; volume 372
Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; 372.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11083497
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Other authors / contributors:Anderson, Larry J., editor.
Graham, Barney S., editor.
ISBN:9783642389191
3642389198
364238918X
9783642389184
9783642389184
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Although respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been a high priority for vaccine development for over 50 years now, still no vaccine is available and none has yet demonstrated sufficient promise to move to licensure. The success of RSV immune prophylaxis and the availability of ever more powerful tools to study the immune response and pathogenesis of disease, combined with the ability to construct a wide variety of vaccines using different vaccine platforms, give us grounds to believe that an RSV vaccine is within reach. This book brings together in one source what is currently known about the virus: its clinical and epidemiologic features; the host response and pathogenesis of the disease; vaccines, vaccine platforms, and treatment; and animal and tissue culture models of RSV infection. It is designed to organize the critical information relevant to RSV vaccine development, facilitate the assimilation of data, and speed progress toward producing a safe and effective vaccine.
Other form:Print version: Challenges and opportunities for respiratory syncytial virus vaccines 364238918X