Vaccines : preventing disease & protecting health /
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| Corporate author / creator: | Pan American Health Organization. |
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : Pan American Health Organization, c2004. |
| Description: | xiii, 398 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scientific and technical publication ; no. 596 Scientific and technical publication (Washington, D.C.) ; no.596. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5200675 |
| Summary: | This publication contains a number of papers which consider the public health role of vaccines in improving the health of the world's populations, and looks at the challenges of using immunisation to combat emerging and re-emerging diseases. Issues discussed include the innovative use of vaccines against diseases such as meningococcal infection in Africa, Haemophilus influenza type b, varicella, and hepatitis, efforts to develop a new generation of vaccines against cholera and typhoid, shigella and Helicobacter pylori, as well as developments in the quest for vaccines against tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, dengue, malaria, and hookworm. It also deals with the use of vaccines to fight bioterrorism attacks; regulatory and safety issues; financing issues, impact of health sector reform and the sustainability of immunisation programmes. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 398 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9275115966 |
