Title: Handbook of meningococcal disease
Description: Summarizes the implications of the meningococcus genome-sequencing project, emphasizing the novel strategies in vaccine development. Following a look at the history, the authors go on to treat the epidemiology of meningococcal disease, as well as the genetics, structure and function of virulence factors. Further chapters cover cross-talk between meningococci and host cells, genomics and immunobiology.
Subjects: Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Neisseria meningitidis, Cerebrospinal Meningitis, Impfstoff, Communicable Disease Control, MEDICAL, Molekularbiologie, Meningococcal Vaccines, Diseases, Neurology, Meningitis cerebrospinalis epidemica, Meningococcal Meningitis, HEALTH & FITNESS, Nervous System (incl. Brain), Meningitis, Encephalomyelitis, Infection, Vaccination, Prevention & control, Pathogenicity