Full Description
This highly accessible textbook introduces readers to the development of viral vectors and discusses their application in veterinary vaccinology. It offers comprehensive information on the latest advances in this emerging research field, together with a broad overview of the history of veterinary vaccines and viral vectors. The book also addresses issues concerning funding, translational research and ethics that will impact the future development, manufacture and global use of viral vector-based veterinary vaccines.
The book addresses the needs of graduate students and researchers in the fields of Veterinary Medicine, Virology and Immunology.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Veterinary Vaccines.- Chapter 2. "What is Required to Develop a Viral Vector Vaccine: Key Components of Vaccine-Induced Immune Responses".- Chapter 3. Viruses and the evolution of viral vectors.- Chapter 4. The role of adjuvants in the application of viral vector vaccines.- Chapter 5. Adenovirus Vectors.- Chapter 6. Poxvirus Vectors.- Chapter 7. The Construction and Evaluation of Herpesvirus Vectors.- Chapter 8. Paramyxoviruses as Vaccine Vectors.- Chapter 9. Rhabdoviruses as vaccine vectors for veterinary pathogens.- Chapter 10. Coronaviruses as Vaccine Vector for Veterinary Pathogens.- Chapter 11. Alphavirus-Based Vaccines.- Chapter 12. Manufacturing and Control of Viral Vectored Vaccines: Challenges.- Chapter 13. Regulatory strategies and factors affecting veterinary viral vector development.- Chapter 14. "Emerging Viral Vectored Technology Future potential of capripoxvirus and African swine fever virus as viral vectors".
