Overview
- We are celebrating this year the hundred years´ anniversary of allergen-specific immunotherapy.
- In 1911 Leonard Noon published his seminal work “Prophylactic inoculation against hay fever” describing his attempts to achieve active immunity against “grass pollen toxin” by administering increasing doses of grass pollen extract before the grass pollen season to allergic patients.
- Although it was unknown at that time that allergy represents an immunological hypersensitivity disease, the treatment was effective and many observations made by Noon remained valid until today.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 352)
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Rudolf Valenta
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Dynavax Technologies, Berkeley, USA
Robert L. Coffman
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vaccines against Allergies
Editors: Rudolf Valenta, Robert L. Coffman
Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20054-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-20053-3Published: 28 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-27100-7Published: 25 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-20054-0Published: 26 August 2011
Series ISSN: 0070-217X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 182
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Vaccine, Immunology