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Vaccinations

  • 1st Edition - November 15, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Gregory Poland
  • Language: English

Get a quick, expert overview of the essentials of today’s vaccinations for adults, including current guidelines and recommendations. This concise, clinically-focused resource, ed… Read more

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Get a quick, expert overview of the essentials of today’s vaccinations for adults, including current guidelines and recommendations. This concise, clinically-focused resource, edited by Drs. Gregory A. Poland and Jennifer Whitaker, consolidates today’s available information on this important topic into one convenient resource, making it an ideal reference for primary care physicians and nurses who need easily accessible information on adult vaccination best practices.

Key features

  • Covers essentials of vaccine safety and discussing vaccine hesitancy with patients.

  • Addresses special populations including the elderly, immunocompromised patients, and adult travelers.

  • Provides up-to-date information on zoster vaccines, Zika vaccine prospects, influenza vaccines, meningococcal vaccines, and pneumococcal vaccines.

Table of contents

1. Essentials of Vaccine Safety

2. Discussing Vaccine Hesitancy: What Can The Physician Do?

3. Vaccines for the Elderly: How, When, Why?

4. Zoster Vaccines: What's New?

5. Prospects for a Zika Vaccine: Where are we now?

6. Influenza Vaccines: Are They Efficacious or Not?

7. Practical Use of Meningococcal Vaccines: Who, When, and Where?

8. Vaccine Immunology: What Do Clinicians Need to Know?

9. Vaccine Use in Immunocompromised Adults: Challenges and Solutions

10. Vaccines for Adult Travelers: When and Why?

11. Immunizations for Health Care Workers: Practical Guidelines and Recommendations

12. Pneumococcal Vaccines in Adults: Who, What, When?

Review quotes

"This book will augment readers' understanding of core principles of adult vaccinology, including strategies to improve the vaccine acceptance and the areas of foment in this field. In an era challenged by vaccine hesitancy, it is timely."

-Manasa Velagapudi, MBBS (CHI Health Clinic CUMC - Bergan Mercy) Doody's Score: 91-4 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 21, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Gregory Poland

Mary Lowell Leary MD Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Distinguished Investigator of the Mayo Clinic, Director; Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Distinguished Investigator of the Mayo Clinic, Director; Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA

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