With an abundance of illustrations, diagrams and algorithms for a reader-friendly review of critical material, this Sixth Edition is fully updated and revised to explore current diagnostic and clinical applications of immunology, as well as strategies for the modulation of immune response and the treatment of hypersensitivity, autoimmune response, and immune deficiency conditions. Organized into four sections that review clinical applications, methodological advances, immunological diseases, and cutting edge interventions, this guide leads readers through state-of-the-sciences technologies and demonstrates their implementation in day-to-day clinical practice.

Key features:

• edited by a distinguished educator with an extensive research background, this source has been thoroughly updated and revised with an expansive array of new diagrams and current chapters on the genetics of immunoglobulins, diagnostic immunology, immune
• complex diseases, immune system modulators, lymphocyte and plasma cell malignancies, and the diagnosis of immunodeficiencies and secondary immunodeficiencies, applications of immunological assays to clinical diagnosis, and the diagnosis of disease in which the immune system plays a significant pathogenic role
• stands as the only introductory level medical immunology textbook in the market
• supplies current discussions on the diagnosis, pathogenesis, and management of autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivity diseases, multiple myeloma, and other lymphoid diseases, and primary and secondary immune deficiency diseases