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By Andrew J. Pollard, Martin C.J. Maiden

ISBN-10: 0896038491

ISBN-13: 9780896038493

ISBN-10: 1592591493

ISBN-13: 9781592591497

Because the first attractiveness of outbreaks of cerebrospinal or noticed fever on the finish of the 19th and the start of the 20th centuries, the threat of the meningococcus has been excessive at the checklist of public health and wellbeing prio- ties. Few if any pathogens surpass the meningococcus within the rapidity and sev- ity with which it devastates formerly fit participants. The problem of realizing the biology of this attention-grabbing microbe is vast, yet few will doubt that winning keep an eye on of meningococcal meningitis and septicemia will simply transpire in the course of the program of a physique of impressive exact inf- mation, together with key trivialities of its molecular biology. within the first of 2 significant other volumes, Meningococcal Vaccines, the staff of specialists accumulated by means of Andy Pollard and Martin Maiden converge to p- vide a powerful accumulation of molecular instruments with which to put naked the secrets and techniques of the meningococcus. the result of this formidable and welcome v- ume characterize an exhilarating and masses wanted source for we all within the box.

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