Novel Strategies in the Design and Production of Vaccines

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Sara Cohen, Avigdor Shafferman
Springer Science & Business Media, Feb 29, 1996 - Medical - 198 pages
Vaccination is one of the most efficient and cost effective methods of promoting human health and has been in clinical use for at least 200 years. Nevertheless, infectious diseases continue to constitute a constant threat to the well being of humanity. Common pathogens, once believed to be under control, acquire increased virulence and resistance to drugs, while exotic microorganisms emerged from hidden reservoirs to cause yet incurable diseases in humans. These changes, together with epidemic outbreaks related to political and socio-economic instabilities, increase the needs for the development of new, advanced vaccines. In this volume, devoted to the proceedings of the 39th OHOLO Conference, we present some of the recent strategies for the design and production of novel vaccines. The advent of recombinant DNA technology has stimulated the production of several subunit vaccines. In spite of the obvious advantages to this approach, the limited immuno genicity of many subunit candidates has hindered their development. Strategies to enhance the immunogenicity of subunit vaccines is therefore critical. Several approaches toward this goal, including design of novel adjuvants and delivery systems as well as design of advantageous carriers, are presented here. Among the carriers evaluated here are polypep tides (flagellin, HBV core antigen, J3-galactosidase), attenuated virions (Vaccinia, Sindbis), and nonpathogenic licensed bacteria (Salmonella).
 

Contents

Synthetic Vaccines for Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases
1
Host Ranged Restricted Non Replicating Vaccinia Virus Vectors as Vaccine Candidates
7
Hybrid Hepatitis B Virus Core Antigen as a Vaccine Carrier Moiety
15
Synthetic Recombinant Vaccine Induces AntiInfluenza LongTerm Immunity and CrossStrain Protection
23
AlphavirusBased Expression Systems
31
Alphavirus Hybrid Virion Vaccines
41
DNA Vaccines for Bacteria and Viruses
49
New Vaccines Against Bacterial Toxins
55
HIVPeplotion Vaccine A Novel Approach to Vaccination against AIDS by Transepithelial Transport of Viral Pertides and Antigens to Langerhans Ce...
97
The Role of Adjuvants and Delivery Systems in Modulation of Immune Response to Vaccines
105
Unique Immunomodulating Properties of Dimethyl Dioctadecyl Ammonium Bromide DDA in Experimental Viral Vaccines
115
Challenges in the Development of Combinations Vaccines
127
Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccines for the Prevention of GramPositive Bacterial Infections
133
Production of Influenza Virus in Cell Cultures for Vaccine Preparation
141
Analysis of Bordetella Pertussis Suspensions by Elisa and Flow Cytometry
153
Clinical Trails of Shigella Vaccines in Israel
159

Parameters for the Rational Design of Genetic Toxoid Vaccines
61
Protective Immunity Induced by Bacillus Anthracis Toxin Mutant Strains
69
Bacterial Outer Membrane Protein Vaccines
73
Changing Paradigms for an HIV Vaccine
79
Complexed HIV Envelop as a Target for an AIDS Vaccine
91
Hyprothesis How Licensed Vaccines Confer Protective Immunity
169
Therapeutic Vaccines
183
Index
191
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