HIV/AIDS: Immunochemistry, Reductionism and Vaccine Design

Download or read book HIV/AIDS: Immunochemistry, Reductionism and Vaccine Design written by Marc H V Van Regenmortel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers a series of pivotal papers on the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine published in the last two decades. Accompanied by extensive comments putting the material into an up-to-date context, all three parts of the book offer a broad overview of the numerous unsuccessful attempts made in recent years to develop a preventive HIV vaccine. Providing a detailed review and analysis of studies published from 1998 to the present day, it examines the likely reasons for the failure to develop an HIV vaccine despite multi-million dollar investments.