Plant-produced Microbial Vaccines /

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...

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Other Authors: Karasev, Alexander V. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
Series:Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; 332.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.