Overview
- Highlighting similarities and differences of various mucosal tracts
- Description of unique cells of each mucosal tract
- Understanding innate and adaptive immunity at mucosal membranes
- Description of some of the most important viral and bacterial mucosal pathogens
- Concise and yet appropriately referenced chapters written by some of the most authoritative figures in Mucosal Immunology and Vaccinology
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Structure and Cells of Mucosal Tissues
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Immunology of Mucosal Tissues
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Gastrointestinal Pathogens
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About this book
Surprisingly what separates us from the open environment all around us sometimes is a single layer of epithelial cells. It is at these seemingly fragile sites that most pathogens, including HIV, influenza, emerging and biodefense agents, gain access to our inside milieu. While there are major similarities between the cells and the immune responses generated at the mucosal membranes of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts together with the genitourinary tract, there are also important differences. Knowledge of these differences and similarities is required in order to understand the interactions between us, as the host, and the pathogens that attack through each tract, and how our immune system reacts to each of them. Whether we want to devise rational prophylactic or therapeutic vaccines or treatments to either prevent or treat mucosal infections we must acquire such knowledge. This is the rationale behind putting this book together.
This book will provide the readers in the areas of vaccinology, virology, bacteriology, epidemiology, immunology and mucosal immunology within academia (undergraduate, graduate, post doctoral fellows and professors), as well as preclinical and clinical scientists in vaccine and drug industries a thorough appreciation of the mucosal immune system and its importance in protecting humans against mucosal pathogens.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Immunity Against Mucosal Pathogens
Editors: Michael Vajdy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8412-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8411-9Published: 04 August 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7873-5Published: 10 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8412-6Published: 09 July 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 524
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Medicine/Public Health, general, Microbiology, Biomedicine general, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary