Vaccines, 5th Edition
By Stanley A. Plotkin, MD, Walter A. Orenstein, MD and Paul A. Offit, MD
Key Features
Provides a complete understanding of each disease, including clinical characteristics, microbiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, as well an epidemiology and public health issues.
Offers comprehensive coverage of both existing vaccines and vaccines currently in the research and development stage.
Examines vaccine stability, immunogenicity, efficacy, duration of immunity, adverse events, indications, contraindications, precautions, administration with other vaccines, and disease control strategies.
Analyses the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of vaccines.
Discusses the proper use of immune globulins and antitoxins.
Illustrates concepts and objective data with approximately 600 tables and figures.
Website Features
Consult the book from any computer at home, in your office, or at any practice location.
Instantly locate the answers to your clinical questions via a simple search query.
Quickly find out more about any bibliographical citation by linking to its MEDLINE abstract.
