Plant-produced Microbial Vaccines

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Karasev, Alexander V. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 332
• Subjects: Medicine.; Microbiology.; Toxicology.; Medical virology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Virology.; Medical Microbiology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70868-1

In recent years, plants have been increasingly explored for production of biomedicines and vaccine components. The two main advantages of plant systems are low cost and a greater potential for scalability as compared to microbial or animal systems. An additional advantage from the public health poin...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Plant Vaccines: An Immunological Perspective
• Display of Peptides on the Surface of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Particles
• Chloroplast derived vaccine antigens and biopharmaceuticals: expression, folding, assembly and functionality
• Production of antibodies in plants-approaches and perspectives
• Plant Production of Veterinary Vaccines and Therapeutics
• Plant-based oral vaccines: results of human trials
• Subject Index.