Editor's Introduction Modern Vaccinology: Progress Towards the Global Control of Infectious Diseases -- I New Concepts in Vaccines Development and Immune Response -- 1. Vaccination with Polynucleotides: A Novel Means of Generating Immunity -- 2. Development of Vaccines by Grafting Microbial Epitopes in Immunoglobulins -- 3. Conventional and New Generation Combined Vaccines -- 4. Progress in the Development of Multivalent Oral Vaccines Based on Live Attenuated Salmonella -- 5. Potentiation of Vaccines Through Effective Adjuvant Fomulations and Manipulation of the Immune Response -- II Recombinant Vaccines and Multivalent Immunogens -- 6. Recent Advances in Recombinant Vaccines for Viral and Parasitic Diseases -- 7. Hepatitis B Virus Recombinant Vaccines: Achievement and Progress -- 8. Recombinant Hepatitis B Surface Antigen as Carrier of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Epitopes: Towards a Dual Immunogenic Vaccine -- 9. Genetically Engineered Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Vaccines -- 10. Rotavirus Vaccine Development -- 11. Progress in the Development of Recombinant Vaccines Against Dengue and Other Arthropod-Borne Flaviviruses -- 12. Expressed Antigens of Hantaviruses as Potential Vaccines for Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome -- 13. Development of Recombinant Measles Vaccines -- 14. Development of Subunit Paramyxoviridae Vaccines -- 15. Rabies Recombinant Vaccines: Development and Field Application -- 16. The New Generation of Recombinant Pertussis Vaccines -- 17. The Use of Recombinant Proteins and Synthetic Peptides in the Development of a Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Vaccine -- 18. Development of a Recombinant Vaccine Against Schistosomiasis -- Contributors. ỹ
New Concepts in Vaccines Development and Immune Response: Vaccination with Polynucleotides (J.B. Ulmer et al.). Development of Vaccines by Grafting Microbial Epitopes in Immunoglobulins (C.A. Bona). Conventional and New Generation Combined Vaccines (F.E. Andre et al.). Progress in the Development of Multivalent Oral Vaccines Based on Live Attenuated Salmonella (S.N. Chatfield et al.). Potentiation of Vaccines through Effective Adjuvant Formulations and Manipulation of the Immune Response (H.P.A. Hughes, L.A. Babiuk). Recombinant Vaccines and Multivalent Immunogens: Recent Advances in Recombinant Vaccines for Viral and Parsitic Diseases (J.A. Tine et al.). Hepatitis B Virus Recombinant Vaccines (F. Tron). Recombinant Hepatitis B Surface Antigen as Carrier of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epitopes (K. Schlienger et al.). Genetically Engineered Human Immunodefiency Virus Type1 Vaccines (B. Rovinski, M. Klein). 9 additional articles. Index.
Existing combined vaccines like diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP) are also experimented with new additional components like recombinant hepatitis B virus surface antigen, inactivated poliovirus, and Haemophilus inJluenzae type b immunogens, in order to produce multivalent vaccines.