Oral Enteric Bacterial Vaccines

Book : Oral Enteric Bacterial Vaccines

Language : English

Library : Social Phsician

Publish Place : Geneva

Volume : 500

Publish Date : 00 1972

Publisher : World Health Organization WHO

Book Type : Report

Book Number : 3447

INDEX


CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Pathogenesis of intestinal infections
2.1 Enteric fevers.......
2.2 Shigellosis.........
2.3 Cholera..........
2.4 Escherichia coli enteritis . . .
3. General immune mechanisms of the intestinal tract .
3.1 Non-specific resistance mechanisms......
3.2 Antibody-mediated mechanisms.......
3.3 Cell-mediated immunity...........
4. Immune mechanisms of the intestinal tract in specific diseases
4.1 Enteric fevers..................
4.2 Shigellosis....................
4.3 Cholera.....................
4.4 E. coll enteritis.................
5. Oral prophylactic agents................
5.1 Killed whole vaccines...............
5.2 Live vaccines..................
5.3 Extracts and fractions of organisms........
5.4 Criteria and methods of assessment........
5.5 Oral passive immunization............
6. Conclusions and recommendations for research
6.1 Immunity in the intestinal tract.....
6.2 Enteric fevers.............
6.3 Shigellosis...............
6.4 Cholera................
6.5 E. coli enteritis............