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Veterinary Vaccines (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Veterinary Vaccines (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: Progress in Vaccinology, 4
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Vaccines have historically been considered to be the most
cost-effective method for preventing communicable diseases. It was
a vaccine that enabled global eradication of the dreaded disease
smallpox. Mass immunization of children forms the anchor of the
strategy of the World Health Organization (WHO) to attain "health
for all" status by the year 2000. Vaccinology is undergoing a
dimensional change with the advances that have taken place in
immunology and genetic engineering. Vaccines that confer short or
inadequate immunity or that have side effects are being replaced by
better vaccines. New vaccines are being developed for a variety of
maladies. Monoclonal antibodies and T cell clones have been
employed to delineate the immunodeterminants on microbes, an
approach elegantly complemented by computer graphics and molecular
imaging techniques. Possibilities have opened for obtaining
hitherto scarce antigens of parasites by the DNA recombinant route.
Better appreciation of the idiotypic network has aroused research
on anti idiotypic vaccines. Solid-phase synthesis of peptides is
leading to an array of synthetic vaccines, an approach that is
expected to attain its full potential once the sequences activating
suppressor cells are discovered and the rules for presentation of
antigens to T and B cells are better worked out. A new breed of
vaccines is on the horizon that seeks to control fertility.
Originally conceived to intercept a step in the reproductive
process, they are conceptual models for developing approaches to
regulate the body's internal processes."
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