Based on Brostoff's "Clinical Immunology", this book focuses on the clinical aspects of the subject. Intended for medical students and junior doctors as a quick review of the subject, the book covers the mechanisms behind disease as well as examples of diagnostic tests.
Extensively updated, with new contributors, brilliant new illustrations and a wealth of supporting material online, this 7th edition offers you a carefully structured approach to learning the building blocks of the immune system as well as initiation and actions of the immune response. The website which accompanies this text gives access to all the images in the book, up to 20 detailed animation sequences (which link to further supporting text, illustrations, molecular models and video clips), 8 lectures which explain how the immune system responds to different infections or to tissue grafts, and a test bank of 300 USMLE-style questions.
A pocket book edition providing an update on advances made in immunology since the first edition. Focusing on the needs of the medic, it presents clinically applicable matter. Taking a dictionary format, it features immunological terminology, and may be used as a revision guide.