Hot topics in infection and immunity in children
By: Nigel Curtis, Adam Finn, Andrew J. Pollard, editors
Contributors: Keble College
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- 697; Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 697.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781441971845
Subjects: Immunology; Diseases; Immunological aspects; Infection in children; Infection; Virus Diseases; Child; Communicable diseases in children; Children; Communicable Diseases
Other titles: Hot topics in infection and immunity in children
Notes: "Each of the chapters in this book is based on a lecture given at the seventh "Infection and Immunity in Children" (IIC) course held at the end of June 2009 at Keble College, Oxford"--P. v.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The value of vaccination / David E. Bloom; title: Recent trends in global immunisation / Gustav J.V. Nossal; title: New advances in typhoid fever vaccination strategies / Zulfiqar A. Bhutta ... [et al.]; title: Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in resource-limited countries / Catherine M. Wilfert ... [et al.]; title: Pneumonia in children in developing countries / Frank Shann; title: Darwin, microbes and evolution by natural selection / E. Richard Moxon; title: Human herpesvirus 6 / Charles G. Prober; title: Advances in the diagnosis and management of central venous access device infections in children / Asha Bowen and Jonathan Carapetis; title: Moraxella catarrhalis; title: pathogen or commensal? / Christoph Aebi; title: Anaerobic infections in children / Itzhak Brook; title: Encephalitis diagnosis and management in the real world / Ssarah S. Long; title: Toxic shock syndrome; title: evolution of an emerging disease / James K. Todd; title: Dissection of B-cell development to unravel defects in patients with a primary antibody deficiency / Mirjam van der Burg ... [et al.]; title: Mumps is back : why is mumps eradication not working? / Noni Macdonald ... [et al.]; title: Neonatal herpes simplex virus infections : where are we now? / Clara Thompson and Richard Whitley; title: Rational approach to pediatric antifungal therapy / William J. Steinbach; title: Antiviral therapy of CMV disease in children / Mike Sharland ... [et al.]; title: Infectious hazards from pets and domestic animals / Mona Al-Dabbagh and Simon Dobson; title: Novel technology to study co-evolution of humans and Staphylococcus aureus : consequences for interpreting the biology of colonisation and infection / Alex van Belkum; title: A practical approach to eosinophilia in a child arriving or returning from the tropics / Penelope Bryant and Nigel Curtis.