The elusive malaria vaccine : miracle or mirage? / Irwin W. Sherman.

Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2009], ©2009.

x, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-373) and index.

Hunting microbes -- Malaria, the sickness -- The immunity alphabet -- From milkmaids to vaccines -- Fundamental findings -- Dreams about vaccines -- Promises, promises, promises -- Hunting for protective blood stage antigens -- Blocking transmission -- Battling blood stages -- Of mice and men -- Informed by the immune system -- Why the vaccine remains elusive.