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Title

Hot topics in infection and immunity in children. II / edited by Andrew J. Pollard and Adam Finn.

Publication

New York, NY : Springer, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

• Pollard, Andrew J.
• Finn, Adam, 1959-
• British Paediatric Allergy, Immunity, and Infection Group.
• European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases.
• University of Oxford. Department of Paediatrics.

Description

xix, 234 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 0065-2598 ; v. 568

Uniform Title

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 568.

Alternative Title

Hot topics in infection and immunity in children 2

Subject

• Infection in children
• Communicable diseases in children
• Children > Immunological aspects
• Infections > drug therapy
• Infections > immunology
• Bacterial Infections > drug therapy
• Bacterial Infections > immunology
• Virus Diseases > drug therapy
• Virus Diseases > immunology
• Infection chez l'enfant
• Maladies infectieuses chez l'enfant
• Immunologie pédiatrique

Note

• Published in association with the British Paediatric Allergy, Immunity and Infection Group (BPAIIG), the European Society for Infectious Diseases (ESPID), and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford.
• "This book is based on the course "Infection and Immunity in Children 2004" which was held at Keble College Oxford, UK in June 2004. This is the second book in this series covering topics in infection and immunity during childhood"--P. v.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Emerging infections and children : influenza and acute necrotizing encephalopathy / Sarah S. Long -- 2. Chickenpox party or varicella vaccine? / Sophie Hambleton and Ann M. Arvin -- 3. The ABC of Epstein-Barr virus infections / Upton D. Allen -- 4. The immune response to viral lower respiratory tract infection / Caroline A. Lindermans and Jan L. L. Kimpen -- 5. Chronic granulomatous disease : from genetic defect to clinical presentation / Johan Bylund, David Goldblatt and David P. Speert -- 6. Novel primary immunodeficiencies / Capucine Picard and Jean-Laurent Casanova -- 7. Periodic fever / Sarah S. Long -- 8. BCG vaccine / Stephen Sze Shing Teo and Delane Shingadia -- 9. Helminth infections of children : prospects for control / Peter J. Hotez, Sonia Arora, Jeffrey Bethony, Maria Elena Bottazzi, Alex Loukas, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira and Simon Brooker -- 10. Rabies on the doorstep / David A. Warrell -- 11. Prevention of typhoid fever / Myron M. Levine and Philippe Lepage -- 12. Dexamethasone in the treatment of pediatric bacterial meningitis in developing countries : is it beneficial? / Elizabeth Molyneux -- 13. Should dexamethasone be part of routine therapy of bacterial meningitis in industrialised countries? / Peter McIntyre -- 14. How to interpret a CSF - the art and the science / Tom Connell and Nigel Curtis -- 15. Reverse vaccinology and vaccines for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis / Dominic F. Kelly and Rino Rappuoli.

ISBN

• 0387253416
• 0387253424 (eISBN)

LCCN

• 2005923474
• 9780387253411

OCLC

• ocm60776525
• SCSB-5215504

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries