title: Perspectives on vaccination in adults.
abstract: In the Second Conference on Controversies in Vaccination in Adults, leading vaccine experts among manufacturers, physicians, microbiologists, virologists, immunologists and public health specialists came together to discuss recent approaches, developments and strategies in vaccination against worldwide pressing epidemic and endemic infectious diseases (pneumococcal, staphylococcal, influenza, papillomavirus-associated tumors, varicella-zoster, AIDS and tuberculosis), and noninfectious epidemics (atherosclerosis and smoking) outlining arguments surrounding the progress of vaccines.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Virology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. h.w.doerr@em.uni-frankfurt.de
authors.forename: Hans W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Doerr
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014611:Vaccination / Q000379:methods*