Plotkin, Stanley A., 1932-

History of vaccines [electronic resource] / Stanley Plotkin. - London : Henry Stewart Talks, 2015. - 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (54 min.) : color, sound). - Vaccines : principles, recent developments and future directions, 2056-452X . - Henry Stewart talks. Biomedical & life sciences collection. Vaccines. .

Animated audio-visual presentation with synchronized narration. Title from title frames.

Contents: History of vaccines -- The impact of vaccination -- Variolation -- Pasteur and first real vaccines -- Inactivated vaccines at the end of the 19th Century -- Toxoids -- Attenuation by serial passage -- Viruses grown in cell culture -- Genetic engineering and recombinant vaccines -- Vaccines licensed since 2000 -- Cumulative number of vaccines developed.

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3880 Henry Stewart Talks


Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895.


Vaccination--History.
Vaccines--Development--History.
Genetic Engineering--history.
Vaccination--history.
Vaccines--isolation & purification.
Viruses--isolation & purification.
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