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Module VACCINES AND ADJUVANTS

Module code: BI808
Credits: 5
Semester: 1
Department: BIOLOGY
International: No
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The course will examine adjuvant use (3 lectures), building on concepts delivered in modules covering innate immunology. One lecture will survey the use of vaccines in a historical context (Jenner and prior to 1890) and in traditional folk medicines from around the world. The bulk of the course will survey the rational design of vaccines. This will begin with the history of polio vaccines (2 lectures) comparing the Salk v Sabin vaccines, the lesser known failed vaccines of the 1930s and the Cutter incident. The course will then survey all vaccines in common use and examine the particular challenges of protecting the neonate in the developing world. Finally the course (4 lectures) will examine the prospect for novel vaccines against the three major infectious diseases of poverty (TB, HIV, malaria). Students will be expected to perform considerable reading of current literature in vaccinology and prepare a dissertation on a vaccination challenge specific to a resource poor region.

(existing module - BI608 with change in assessment. Check with the Institute of Immunology Administrator for the current BI608 timetable and identify yourself to the lecturer.)

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