Contents:

Host defense mechanisms and inflammation

Host defenses to infectious agents

Immunologic deficiencies

Allergic diseases

Systemic immune diseases

Organspecific inflammatory disease

Immunology of neoplasia

Transplantation

Diagnostic immunology

Selected CD molecules and their characteristics

Laboratory reference values

Chemokines

Cytokines

Vaccine schedules

Index


Prevention and therapy of immunologic diseases

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