Revised edition of: Elsevier's integrated immunology and microbiology / Jeffrey K. Actor. c2007.
Includes index.
Introduction to immunity and immune systems -- Cells and organs of the immune system -- Humoral immunity: antibody recognition of antigen -- T-cell immunity -- Role of major histocompatibility complex in the immune response -- Innate immunity -- Adaptive immune response and hypersensitivity -- Immunomodulation -- Immunoassays -- Infection and immunity -- Basic bacteriology -- Clinical bacteriology -- Basic virology -- Clinical virology -- Mycology -- Parasitology.
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