Vaccines E-Book

Apply the latest vaccination knowledge with a reference that Bill Gates calls "an indispensable guide to the enhancement of the well-being of our world." Inside Vaccines, you’ll find comprehensive and current coverage of every aspect of vaccination, from the development of each vaccine to its use in reducing disease. This medical reference book offers the expert information you need to apply the very latest techniques and information in your practice!

    • Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability.
    • Gain a complete understanding of each disease, including clinical characteristics, microbiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as epidemiology and public health and regulatory issues.
    • Update your knowledge of both existing vaccines and vaccines currently in the research and development stage.
    • Get complete answers on each vaccine, including its stability, immunogenicity, efficacy, duration of immunity, adverse events, indications, contraindications, precautions, administration with other vaccines, and disease-control strategies.
    • Analyze the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of different vaccine options.
    • Clearly visualize concepts and objective data through an abundance of tables and figures.
    • Make optimal use of the latest vaccines for pneumococcal disease, rotavirus, human papillomavirus, herpes zoster, meningococcal disease, and much more.
    • Stay at the forefront of new developments with completely updated chapters on malaria and HIV vaccines, a new chapter on vaccine regulations across the world, and many other revisions throughout.
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    Vaccines E-Book

    Apply the latest vaccination knowledge with a reference that Bill Gates calls "an indispensable guide to the enhancement of the well-being of our world." Inside Vaccines, you’ll find comprehensive and current coverage of every aspect of vaccination, from the development of each vaccine to its use in reducing disease. This medical reference book offers the expert information you need to apply the very latest techniques and information in your practice!

      • Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability.
      • Gain a complete understanding of each disease, including clinical characteristics, microbiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as epidemiology and public health and regulatory issues.
      • Update your knowledge of both existing vaccines and vaccines currently in the research and development stage.
      • Get complete answers on each vaccine, including its stability, immunogenicity, efficacy, duration of immunity, adverse events, indications, contraindications, precautions, administration with other vaccines, and disease-control strategies.
      • Analyze the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of different vaccine options.
      • Clearly visualize concepts and objective data through an abundance of tables and figures.
      • Make optimal use of the latest vaccines for pneumococcal disease, rotavirus, human papillomavirus, herpes zoster, meningococcal disease, and much more.
      • Stay at the forefront of new developments with completely updated chapters on malaria and HIV vaccines, a new chapter on vaccine regulations across the world, and many other revisions throughout.
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      Apply the latest vaccination knowledge with a reference that Bill Gates calls "an indispensable guide to the enhancement of the well-being of our world." Inside Vaccines, you’ll find comprehensive and current coverage of every aspect of vaccination, from the development of each vaccine to its use in reducing disease. This medical reference book offers the expert information you need to apply the very latest techniques and information in your practice!

        • Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability.
        • Gain a complete understanding of each disease, including clinical characteristics, microbiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as epidemiology and public health and regulatory issues.
        • Update your knowledge of both existing vaccines and vaccines currently in the research and development stage.
        • Get complete answers on each vaccine, including its stability, immunogenicity, efficacy, duration of immunity, adverse events, indications, contraindications, precautions, administration with other vaccines, and disease-control strategies.
        • Analyze the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of different vaccine options.
        • Clearly visualize concepts and objective data through an abundance of tables and figures.
        • Make optimal use of the latest vaccines for pneumococcal disease, rotavirus, human papillomavirus, herpes zoster, meningococcal disease, and much more.
        • Stay at the forefront of new developments with completely updated chapters on malaria and HIV vaccines, a new chapter on vaccine regulations across the world, and many other revisions throughout.

        Product Details

        ISBN-13: 9781455737987
        Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
        Publication date: 09/22/2012
        Sold by: Barnes & Noble
        Format: eBook
        Pages: 1570
        File size: 143 MB
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        About the Author

        Plotkin, Stanley A., MD (Univ of Pennsylvania); Orenstein, Walter A., MD (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

        Table of Contents

        Contents

        Foreword ix

        Preface to the first edition x

        Preface to the sixth edition x

        Preface by Editor in Chief xi

        List of Contributors xii

        Dedication xix

        Acknowledgements xix

        SECTION 1: General aspects of vaccination

        1 A short history of vaccination 1

        Susan L. Plotkin, Stanley A. Plotkin

        2 Vaccine immunology 14

        Claire-Anne Siegrist

        3 The vaccine industry 33

        R. Gordon Douglas, Vijay B. Samant

        4 Vaccine manufacturing 44

        Phillip L. Gomez, James M. Robinson, Joseph A. Rogalewicz

        5 Evolution of adjuvants across the centuries 58

        Nathalie Garçon, Stanley Hem, Martin Friede

        6 Vaccine additives and manufacturing residuals in the United States:

        licensed vaccines 71

        Theresa M. Finn, William Egan

        7 Passive immunization 80

        E. Richard Stiehm, Margaret A. Keller

        8 General immunization practices 88

        Andrew T. Kroger, William L. Atkinson, Larry K. Pickering

        SECTION 2: Licensed vaccines

        9 Adenovirus vaccines 113

        Gregory C. Gray

        10 Anthrax vaccines 127

        Arthur M. Friedlander, John D. Grabenstein, Phillip S. Brachman

        11 Cholera vaccines 141

        John D. Clemens, Sunheang Shin, Binod K. Sah, David A. Sack

        12 Diphtheria toxoid 153

        Tejpratap S. P. Tiwari, Melinda Wharton

        13 Haemophilus influenzae vaccines 167

        Aruna Chandran, James P. Watt, Mathuram Santosham

        14 Hepatitis A vaccines 183

        Trudy V. Murphy, Stephen M. Feinstone, Beth P. Bell

        15 Hepatitis B vaccines 205

        Pierre Van Damme, John Ward, Daniel Shouval, Steven Wiersma, Alessandro Zanetti

        16 Human papillomavirus vaccines 235

        John T. Schiller, Douglas R. Lowy, Lauri E. Markowitz

        17 Inactivated influenza vaccines 257

        Anthony E. Fiore, Carolyn B. Bridges, Jacqueline M. Katz, Nancy J. Cox

        18 Influenza vaccine—live 294

        Catherine J. Luke, Seema S. Lakdawala, Kanta Subbarao

        19 Japanese encephalitis vaccines 312

        Scott B. Halstead, Julie Jacobson, Katrin Dubischar-Kastner

        20 Measles vaccines 352

        Peter M. Strebel, Mark J. Papania, Amy Parker Fiebelkorn, Neal A. Halsey

        21 Meningococcal vaccines 388

        Dan M. Granoff, Stephen Pelton, Lee H. Harrison

        22 Mumps vaccine 419

        Steven A. Rubin, Stanley A. Plotkin

        23 Pertussis vaccines . 447

        Kathryn M. Edwards, Michael D. Decker

        24 Plague vaccines 493

        E. Diane Williamson, Petra C. F. Oyston

        25 Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and pneumococcal common protein vaccines 504

        Keith P. Klugman, Steven Black, Ron Dagan, Richard Malley, Cynthia G. Whitney

        26 Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines 542

        Lisa A. Jackson

        27 Poliovirus vaccine—inactivated . 573

        Emmanuel Vidor, Stanley A. Plotkin

        28 Poliovirus vaccine—live 598

        Roland W. Sutter, Olen M. Kew, Stephen L. Cochi, R. Bruce Aylward

        29 Rabies vaccines .646

        Charles E. Rupprecht, Stanley A. Plotkin

        30 Rotavirus vaccines . 669

        H. Fred Clark, Paul A. Offit, Umesh D. Parashar

        31 Rubella vaccine 688

        Susan E. Reef, Stanley A. Plotkin

        32 Smallpox and vaccinia 718

        Richard B. Kennedy, J. Michael Lane, Donald A. Henderson, Gregory A. Poland

        33 Tetanus toxoid 746

        Martha H. Roper, Steven G. F. Wassilak, Tejpratap S. P. Tiwari, Walter A. Orenstein

        34 Tick-borne encephalitis virus vaccines 773

        P. Noel Barrett, Daniel Portsmouth, Hartmut J. Ehrlich

        35 Tuberculosis vaccines 789

        Kim Connelly Smith, Ian M. Orme, Jeffrey R. Starke

        36 Typhoid fever vaccines 812

        Myron M. Levine

        37 Varicella vaccine 837

        Anne A. Gershon, Michiaki Takahashi, Jane F. Seward

        38 Yellow fever vaccine 870

        Thomas P. Monath, Mark Gershman, J. Erin Staples, Alan D. T. Barrett

        39 Zoster vaccine 969

        Myron J. Levin

        40 Combination vaccines 981

        Michael D. Decker, Kathryn M. Edwards, Hugues H. Bogaerts

        SECTION 3: Vaccines in development and new vaccine strategies

        41 Biodefense and special pathogen vaccines 1008

        Phillip R. Pittman, Stanley A. Plotkin

        42 Therapeutic cancer vaccines 1018

        Neil L. Berinstein, Jeffrey A. Berinstein

        43 Cytomegalovirus vaccines 1032

        Mark R. Schleiss, Stanley A. Plotkin

        44 Dengue vaccines 1042

        Scott B. Halstead, Stephen J. Thomas

        45 Diarrhea caused by bacteria 1052

        James P. Nataro, Eileen M. Barry

        46 Ebola vaccine 1060

        Nancy J. Sullivan, Hugues F. Fausther-Bovendo, Gary J. Nabel

        47 Epstein-Barr virus vaccines 1068

        Viviana P. Lutzky, Denis J. Moss

        48 Hepatitis C vaccines 1074

        Sergio Abrignani, Eva Reali, Michael Houghton, Raffaele De Francesco

        49 Hepatitis E vaccines 1085

        Robert H. Purcell, Suzanne U. Emerson

        50 Herpes simplex virus vaccines 1090

        Lawrence R. Stanberry, Robert B. Belshe

        51 Human immunodeficiency virus vaccines 1097

        Marc P. Girard, Wayne C. Koff

        52 Lyme disease vaccines 1122

        Allen C. Steere, Ian Livey

        53 Malaria vaccines 1133

        W. Ripley Ballou, Joe Cohen

        54 Noninfectious disease vaccines 1138

        Philippe Saudan, Martin F. Bachmann

        55 Respiratory syncytial virus and parainfluenza virus vaccines 1146

        Ruth A. Karron

        56 Parasitic disease vaccines 1154

        Peter J. Hotez, Jeffrey M. Bethony

        57 Staphylococcus aureus vaccines 1161

        Robert S. Daum

        58 Streptococcus group A vaccines 1169

        Karen L. Kotloff

        59 Streptococcus group B vaccines 1176

        C. Mary Healy, Carol J. Baker

        60 Technologies for making new vaccines 1182

        Ronald W. Ellis, Rino Rappuoli, Sohail Ahmed

        61 Alternative vaccine delivery methods 1200

        Bruce G. Weniger, Mark J. Papania

        62 The development of gene-based vectors for immunization 1232

        David B. Weiner, Gary J. Nabel

        SECTION 4: Vaccination of special groups

        63 Vaccination of immunocompromised hosts 1243

        Per Ljungman

        64 Vaccination of human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons 1257

        William J. Moss, Catherine G. Sutcliffe, Neal A. Halsey

        65 Vaccines for international travel 1270

        Elizabeth D. Barnett, Phyllis E. Kozarsky, Robert Steffen

        66 Vaccines for health care personnel 1290

        David J. Weber, William A. Rutala

        SECTION 5: Public health and regulatory issues

        67 Immunization in the United States 1310

        Lance E. Rodewald, Walter A. Orenstein, Alan R. Hinman, Anne Schuchat

        68 Immunization in Europe . 1334

        David M. Salisbury, Rebecca M. Martin, Pierre Van Damme, Pier Luigi Lopalco

        69 Immunization in the Asia-Pacific region 1353

        Theodore F. Tsai, Hans Bock, Zhi Yi Xu

        70 Immunization in developing countries 1369

        Violaine Mitchell, Vance J. Dietz, Jean Marie Okwo-Bele, Felicity T. Cutts

        71 Community immunity 1395

        Paul E. M. Fine, Kim Mulholland

        72 Economic analyses of vaccine policies 1413

        Mark A. Miller, Alan R. Hinman

        73 Regulation and testing of vaccines 1427

        Norman W. Baylor, Valerie B. Marshall

        74 Regulation of vaccines in Europe 1447

        Falk Ehmann, Xavier Kurz, Marco Cavaleri, Peter R. Arlett

        75 Regulation of vaccines in developing countries 1454

        Lahouari Belgharbi, Nora Dellepiane, David J. Wood

        76 Vaccine safety 1464

        Paul A. Offit, Frank DeStefano

        77 Legal issues . 1481

        Geoffrey Evans, Emily Marcus Levine, Anna L. Jacobs

        78 Ethics 1508

        Arthur L. Caplan, Jason L. Schwartz

        Appendix 1514

        Deborah L. Wexler, Teresa A. Anderson, Mary R. Quirk

        Index .1521

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