ImmunoFacts® 2008 provides concise information on the most frequently used vaccines and immunologics.

ImmunoFacts helps you make informed decisions about dosage, administration, storage, formulary admission, and purchasing of vaccines and immunologic drugs. This is an essential resource for anyone who prescribes, administers, or dispenses immunologic agents, or who monitors patients receiving vaccines.

ImmunoFacts® 2008 contains:

• Easy-to-use comparative tables
• Dosing considerations for adults and children
• Catch-up schedules for childhood immunizations
• Trade names and manufacturers
• International trade name listing
• Discussion of vaccines for international travel

Contents

Introduction to Immunology

• Theory and Perspectives
• Guidelines on Use of Immunologic Drugs

Vaccines and Toxoids

• Bacterial Vaccines and Toxoids
• Viral Vaccines

Immune Globulins

• Broad-Spectrum Immune Globulins
• Anti-Infective Immune Globulins
• Immunoantidotes
• Isoantibodies

Hypersensitivity Agents

• Immediate-Hypersensitivity Agents
• Delayed-Hypersensitivity Agents

Mediators and Modulators

• Colony-Stimulating Factors
• Interferons
• Interleukins
• Interleukin Anatagonists
• General Immunostimulants
• Immunologic Modulators
• Immunologic Adjuvants

Nonimmunologic Drugs

Investigational Drugs

Obsolete Immunologic Drugs

International Immunologic Drugs

Index

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