Plotkin's Vaccines
8th edition cover | |
| Author | Stanley Plotkin, Paul Offit, Walter Orenstein, and Kathryn M. Edwards |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | W. B. Saunders Company (1st–6th editions), Elsevier |
Publication date | 1988, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2023 |
| Publication place | United States |
Plotkin's Vaccines (also known as Plotkin on Vaccines; or just Vaccines) is a comprehensive medical textbook on vaccines first published by American virologist Stanley Plotkin in 1988, that edition being co-authored by pediatrician and epidemiologist Edward A. Mortimer Jr., with subsequent editions produced every several years leading to the eighth edition in 2023. The seventh and eighth editions were co-authored by Plotkin, Paul Offit, Walter Orenstein, and Kathryn M. Edwards. The book is generally considered to be the standard reference in the field of vaccinology.