SpringerProtocols: Abstract: Immune Response and Host-Pathogen Interactions

Immune Response and Host-Pathogen Interactions

By: Andrew J. Pollard³, David Goldblatt⁴

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For the most part, the relationship between the pathogen, Neisseria meningitidis, and humans is uneventful. Colonization of the human nasopharynx at various times during life is an almost universal experience but clinically overt disease is unusual except during epidemics. This overview considers the relationship between the meningococcus and humans, reviewing current immunological and molecular understanding of this interaction of relevance to development of immunogenic vaccines.

Affiliation(s): (3) BC Research Institute for Children’s ⇐p; Women’s Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada
(4) Immunobiology Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK

Book Title: Meningococcal Vaccines: Methods and Protocols

Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine | Volume: 66 | Pub. Date: Jun-25-2001 | Page Range: 23-39 | DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-148-5:23

Subject: Immunology

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