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The elusive malaria vaccine : miracle or mirage? / Irwin W. Sherman.

Title
The elusive malaria vaccine : miracle or mirage? / Irwin W. Sherman.
Author
Sherman, Irwin W.
Publication
Washington, DC : ASM Press, c2009.

Holdings

Details

Description
x, 391 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Malaria > prevention & control
  • Malaria Vaccines > history
  • Malaria vaccine > History
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-373) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Hunting microbes -- Malaria, the sickness -- The immunity alphabet -- From milkmaids to vaccines -- Fundamental findings -- Dreams about vaccines -- Promises, promises, promises -- Hunting for protective blood stage antigens -- Blocking transmission -- Battling blood stages -- Of mice and men -- Informed by the immune system -- Why the vaccine remains elusive.
ISBN
9781555815158 (hardcover)
LCCN
^^2009003425