Hot topics in infection and immunity in children. / edited by Andrew J. Pollard and Adam Finn.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Springer, ©2005.
Descriptionxix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects

Other author/creatorPollard, Andrew J.
Other author/creatorFinn, Adam, 1959-
Other author/creatorBritish Paediatric Allergy, Immunity, and Infection Group.
Other author/creatorEuropean Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases.
Other author/creatorUniversity of Oxford. Department of Paediatrics.
Variant title Hot topics in infection and immunity in children 2
SeriesAdvances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 568
Advances in experimental medicine and biology v. 568. ^A103
Contents Emerging infections and children: influenza and acute necrotizing encephalopathy / Sarah S. Long -- Chickenpox party or varicella vaccine? / Sophie Hambleton and Ann M. Arvin -- The ABC of Epstein-Barr virus infections / Upton D. Allen -- The immune response to viral lower respiratory tract infection / Caroline A. Lindemans and Jan L.L. Kimpen -- Chronic granulomatous disease: from genetic defect to clinical presentation / Johan Bylund, David Goldblatt, and David P. Speert -- Novel primary immunodeficiencies / Capucine Picard and Jean-Laurent Casanova -- Periodic fever / Sarah S. Long -- BCG vaccine / Stephen Sze Shing Teo and Delane Shingadia -- Helminth infections of children: prospects for control / Peter J. Hotez ... [et al.] -- Rabies on the doorstep / David A. Warrell -- Prevention of typhoid fever / Myron M. Levine and Philippe Lepage -- Dexamethasone in the treatment of pediatric bacterial meningitis In developing countries: is it beneficial? / Elizabeth Molyneux -- Should dexamethasone be part of routine therapy of bacterial meningitis in industrialised countries? / Peter McIntyre -- How to interpret a CSF: the art and the science / Tom Connell and Nigel Curtis -- Reverse vaccinology and vaccines for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis / Dominic F. Kelly and Rino Rappuoli.
General notePublished in association with the British Paediatric Allergy, Immunity and Infection Group (BPAIIG), the European Society for Infectious Diseases (ESPID), and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford.
General note"This book is based on the course "Infection and Immunity in Children 2004" which was held at Keble College Oxford, UK in June 2004. This is the second book in this series covering topics in infection and immunity during childhood"--P. v.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005923474
ISBN0387253416