Ebook: Veterinary Vaccines
- Tags: Zoology, Immunology
- Series: Progress in Vaccinology 4
- Year: 1993
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- pdf
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Adjuvants for New Veterinary Vaccines....Pages 1-28
Genetically Engineered Bluetongue Virus-Like Particles and Their Potential for Use as Vaccine in Sheep....Pages 29-53
Progress towards Peptide Vaccines for Foot-and-Mouth Disease....Pages 54-86
Vaccination against Animal Retroviruses....Pages 87-138
Vaccines against Rabies Virus....Pages 139-162
Vaccines against Morbillivirus Infections....Pages 163-181
Control of Viral Diseases of Sheep and Goats: Conventional and Novel Vaccines....Pages 182-199
Conventional and Contemporary Bacterial Veterinary Vaccines....Pages 200-239
Conventional and Biotechnologically Engineered Bovine Vaccines....Pages 240-287
Vaccines for the Skin and Mammary Gland of Ruminants....Pages 288-317
Current and Future Vaccines against Theileriosis....Pages 318-337
Back Matter....Pages 339-342
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Adjuvants for New Veterinary Vaccines....Pages 1-28
Genetically Engineered Bluetongue Virus-Like Particles and Their Potential for Use as Vaccine in Sheep....Pages 29-53
Progress towards Peptide Vaccines for Foot-and-Mouth Disease....Pages 54-86
Vaccination against Animal Retroviruses....Pages 87-138
Vaccines against Rabies Virus....Pages 139-162
Vaccines against Morbillivirus Infections....Pages 163-181
Control of Viral Diseases of Sheep and Goats: Conventional and Novel Vaccines....Pages 182-199
Conventional and Contemporary Bacterial Veterinary Vaccines....Pages 200-239
Conventional and Biotechnologically Engineered Bovine Vaccines....Pages 240-287
Vaccines for the Skin and Mammary Gland of Ruminants....Pages 288-317
Current and Future Vaccines against Theileriosis....Pages 318-337
Back Matter....Pages 339-342
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