Vaccines: 4th edition - Hardcover

Plotkin, Stanley A.; Orenstein, Walter A.

 
9780721696881: Vaccines: 4th edition

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This classic resource examines every aspect of vaccination - from development to use in reducing disease.Completely revised and updated, it provides authoritative information on vaccine production, available preparations, efficacy, and safety.

Provides a complete understanding of each disease, including clinical characteristics, microbiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, as well an epidemiology and public health issues.Discusses the proper use of immune globulins and antitoxins.Examines vaccine stability, immunogenicity, efficacy, duration of immunity, adverse events, indications, contraindications, precautions, administration with other vaccines, and disease control strategies.Illustrates concepts and objective data with over 605 tables and figures.

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