Modern Vaccines: Current Practice and New Approaches (A Lancet series) - Hardcover

This selection of articles, published in "The Lancet" between January and April 1990 and presented here in a collaborated and fully indexed form for convenience of use by the individual reader, offers a review of vaccine development for all the major infectious diseases. Exciting prospects for new vaccines have occurred through the use of molecular biological techniques and these will be highlighted. New vaccine research on cures for AIDS and parasitic diseases will also be covered. The book is aimed at infectious disease physicians, microbiologists, paediatricians, community medicine physicians and tropical medicine physicians.