Vaccination against mosquito borne viral infections: current status.

نویسنده

  • Viroj Wiwanitkit
چکیده

Mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. Vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for Japanese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. There are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and West Nile virus infection. In this article, the author reviews the issues on vaccination of some important tropical mosquito borne infectious diseases.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Iranian journal of immunology : IJI

دوره 4 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007