Brain Fever: How Vaccines Prevent Meningitis And Other Killer Diseases - Brossura

Moxon, Richard

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ISBN 10: 1800610017 ISBN 13: 9781800610019

Casa editrice: WSPC (EUROPE), 2021

Riassunto

In Brain Fever, the internationally renowned medical scientist, Richard Moxon FRS, shares his experiences of bacterial meningitis, a fearful and devastating infection of the brain. In a clear, non-technical style, he explains what meningitis is, what causes it, who gets it and how research has come up with vaccines that can prevent it. A paediatrician, Moxon engages the reader in a compelling story of how chance, opportunity and passion drew him into researching the bacteria that are the dangerous assassins of unsuspecting, previously healthy people, especially young children. Moxon traces the story of his involvement as one of the extraordinary and inspiring group of scientists who pioneered a milestone in medical history: the development of vaccines to prevent bacterial meningitis. In this must-read book, Brain Fever provides expert insight into what it takes to develop a vaccine. As we are learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vaccines that we rely on to fight and overcome the devastation caused by virulent pathogens. His message is clear and challenging: no other intervention in the history of medicine confers a greater public health benefit than immunisation.

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Informazioni sull?autore

<p>Richard Moxon FRS, is an Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Oxford. His paediatric and research training was in the UK (1966–1969) and the USA (1970–1974). He was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Paediatrics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1974–1984), becoming the Eudowood Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 1981 before he was elected as Action Research Professor and Chairman of Paediatrics at Oxford University (1984–2008) and Head of the Molecular Infectious Diseases Group in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (1988–2008). He is a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007. His major research interests have been on the pathogenesis and prevention of sepsis and meningitis caused by the bacteria Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria meningitidis. Moxon is the founder and first director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and the Director of the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology, named the Moxon Building in 2014. He has published 5 books and more than 400 peer-reviewed original scientific articles.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: WSPC (EUROPE)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1800610017
• ISBN 13: 9781800610019
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 264
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