Essentials of Clinical Immunology

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ESSENTIALS OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY makes use of
illustrative case histories and flow charts to demonstrate the usefulness of clinical
immunology in the diagnosis and management of a great number and variety of human
diseases. It is aimed at both the practising clinician and the medical student.
The second edition has put AIDS into its overall clinical context, along with its
differential diagnosis. AIDS is discussed in immunodeficiency as well as in each
diseased organ system (e.g. the skin, chest, and nervous system). The chapter on basic
immunology now contains more on interleukins and also includes T cell receptors. The
relevance of the new DNA technology is discussed both in the techniques chapter, and
also with regard to new synthetic vaccines in the chapter on immune manipulation.
Here too, the use of immune modulators (such as interleukin-2 and interferon) in clinical
trials has been anticipated. The role of bone marrow transplantation has been revised
and in the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

ESSENTIALS OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY makes use of
illustrative case histories and flow charts to demonstrate the usefulness of clinical
immunology in the diagnosis and management of a great number and variety of human
diseases. It is aimed at both the practising clinician and the medical student.
The second edition has put AIDS into its overall clinical context, along with its
differential diagnosis. AIDS is discussed in immunodeficiency as well as in each
diseased organ system (e.g. the skin, chest, and nervous system). The chapter on basic
immunology now contains more on interleukins and also includes T cell receptors. The
relevance of the new DNA technology is discussed both in the techniques chapter, and
also with regard to new synthetic vaccines in the chapter on immune manipulation.
Here too, the use of immune modulators (such as interleukin-2 and interferon) in clinical
trials has been anticipated. The role of bone marrow transplantation has been revised
and in the chapter on lymphoproliferation, gene rearrangement has been included in the
context of diagnosis of lymphoproliferative diseases.
'The two authors of this book who are clearly at home in the clinic and the laboratory
have produced a comprehensive and exciting picture of clinical immunology today . . .
(it) will certainly become rapidly established as required reading.' The Lancet (on the
first edition) Vissza