Models of Protection Against HIV/SIV: Avoiding AIDS in Humans and Monkeys - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0123877156 ISBN 13: 9780123877154

Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 2012

Riassunto

A successful vaccine for the prevention and/or immunotherapy against HIV/AIDS is one of the prominent challenges of the 21^st century. To date, all human vaccine trials against this virus/disease have resulted in failure, or at best have shown very low efficacy. The scientific community dealing with HIV/AIDS has unanimously proposed a focus on basic science, with the intention of identifying correlates of protection that can serve as guides in developing and evaluating vaccine preparation. However, Nature seems to have already found several ways of dealing with infections by HIV and related primate lentiviruses, either by resisting infection or, once infected, avoiding immune damage and immunodeficiency.

Models of Protection Against HIV/SIV will allow for an in-depth reflection on the perspectives for vaccine and therapy research derived from important recent studies. It will be authored by some of the most well known specialists in the field of HIV resistance/protection: including F. Barré-Sinoussi (2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine winner), B. Walker, S. Rowland-Jones, A. Telenti, M. Lederman and F. Plummer.

This book is structured in a unique way, looking at three models of resistance/protection separately and then comparing the models against one another to provide its readership with a detailed examination of the research that is most predominant in the search for a vaccine. This structure presents the information in an easy-to-understand format and gives the book a cross-discipline appeal -- an important reference for those in the scientific community, medical care, public health and academia alike.

• Provides extensive descriptions and comparisons on the different models of protection agains HIV/AIDS
• Comprehensive writing and illustrations
• Contributors are among the most eminent specialists in the field

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Informazioni sull?autore

Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Chief, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center

Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Comparative Pathology, Emory University

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Academic Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0123877156
• ISBN 13: 9780123877154
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 345
• Redattore: Pancino Gianfranco, Silvestri Guido, Fowke Keith R.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile