Challenges and Opportunities for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Virology, Reverse Genetics, and Pathogenesis of Disease.- Clinical and Epidemiologic Features of Respiratory Syncytial Virus.- Influence of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Strain Differences on Pathogenesis and Immunity.- Structure and Function of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Surface Glycoproteins.- Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Reactive Airway Disease.- Human Genetics and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease: Current Findings and Future Approaches.- Innate Immune Responses to Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection.- The Adaptive Immune Response to Respiratory Syncytial Virus.- Respiratory Syncytial Virus Mechanisms to Interfere with Type 1 Interferons.- Host Gene Expression and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection.- Consequences of Immature and Senescent Immune Responses for Infection with Respiratory Syncytial Virus.- Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease: Prevention and Treatment.- Live-Attenuated Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines.- Subunit and Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Approaches for Respiratory Syncytial Virus.- Gene-Based Vaccine Approaches for Respiratory Syncytial Virus.- Bovine Model of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection.- The Cotton Rat S. hispidus Model of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection.- The Mouse Model of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease.- Human Airway Epithelial Cell Cultures for Modeling Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection.- Challenges and Opportunities for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines.

From the reviews:

"I enjoyed the book: as an immunologist who has spent 10 years working on RSV there were a number of novel insights and it was nice to see it all in one place. ... I will be recommending it to PhD students and Postdocs starting out on RSV research ... . also recommend it to people who have been working with RSV for a while to dip in and out of to fill any gaps in the general knowledge." (John Tregoning, Immunology News, May, 2014)