The Grand Challenge for the Future - Vaccines for Poverty-Related Diseases from Bench to Field (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)

The vaccines most urgently needed are those againstpoverty-related diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and HIV.However, there is a considerable gap between the development of avaccine and the implementation as a useful measure for diseasecontrol. Major obstacles need to be overcome even after successfulcompletion of the preclinical stage.

This book provides an important link between vaccine developmentand application under the particular conditions in developingcountries.
The editors, S.H.E. Kaufmann and P.H. Lambert - one from the fieldof basic research and the other an expert on the side of appliedvaccinology - have gathered contributions from specialists of bothfields in an attempt to create a source of information that hasthus far not been available.