Plant-derived Pharmaceuticals

By: Rima Menassa and Carla Marusic and Inga Hitzeroth and M A D'Aoust and Pascal Drake and Andreas Günter Lössl and David Aviezer and John Howard and Elizabeth Loza Rubio and Gregory Pogue and Shawn Chen and Kathleen Hefferon and Somen Nandi and Karen Mcdonald

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Synopsis: Describing recent developments in the engineering and generation of plants as production platforms for biopharmaceuticals, this book includes both vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. It has a particular emphasis on targeting diseases which predominate in less developed countries, encompassing the current state of technologies and describing expression systems and applications. This book also includes a variety of vaccine case studies, protecting against pervasive infectious diseases such as rabies, influenza and HIV.