TRANSACTIONSOF THEROYALSOCIETYOFTROIXAL MEDICINEAND
HYGIENE (1992)
86,1-2
Leading Article Vaccines
against
A. E. Buttenvorth
schistosomiasis:
Department
of Pathology,
where
Tennis Court Road, Cambridge,
The possibility of vaccination against schistosomiasis has been repeatedly proposed and promised for so many years that, for those not actively engaged in the field, a degree of scepticism might seem justified. However, as in many other fields, the problem is one of time-scale rather than feasibility, requiring decades rather than years to achieve the eventual goal of a product suitable for general use in man. Over the past few years, steady and-substantial progress has been made. This has recentlv been reviewed in detail bv BERG~UIST (19901, and the iresent article summarizes
HYGIENE (1992)
86,1-2
Leading Article Vaccines
against
A. E. Buttenvorth
schistosomiasis:
Department
of Pathology,
where
Tennis Court Road, Cambridge,
The possibility of vaccination against schistosomiasis has been repeatedly proposed and promised for so many years that, for those not actively engaged in the field, a degree of scepticism might seem justified. However, as in many other fields, the problem is one of time-scale rather than feasibility, requiring decades rather than years to achieve the eventual goal of a product suitable for general use in man. Over the past few years, steady and-substantial progress has been made. This has recentlv been reviewed in detail bv BERG~UIST (19901, and the iresent article summarizes
