Vaccines are among the most useful and cost-effective tools for reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diseases. This month, a special Focus issue of Nature Reviews Microbiology highlights some of the latest progress in vaccine development and the pitfalls that have been encountered along the way.The topics covered range from advances in our understanding of the immune response that will help in the development of new adjuvants and anti-bacterial vaccines, to the latest work on the development of a dengue virus vaccine. The accompanying library collects the most relevant recent publications from Nature Publishing Group.

Here is the table of contents for the vaccine focus collection.