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Clinical Immunology

Principles and Practice

  • 6th Edition - August 23, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Robert R. Rich, Thomas A. Fleisher, Harry W. Schroeder Jr., Cornelia M. Weyand, David B. Corry, Jennifer M. Puck
  • Language: English

Offering unique, comprehensive coverage of both basic science and clinical scenarios, Clinical Immunology: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, brings you up to date with every… Read more

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Offering unique, comprehensive coverage of both basic science and clinical scenarios, Clinical Immunology: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, brings you up to date with every aspect of this fast-changing field. It examines the molecular, cellular, and immunologic bases of immunologic diseases and their broader systemic implications; it also includes complete coverage of common and uncommon immunologic disorders. Updated with all the latest immunologic research and clinical implications, including breakthrough immunotherapies and molecular-based treatment protocols, this fully revised edition provides authoritative guidance from some of the most respected global leaders in immunology in one complete, well-illustrated volume.

Key features

  • Includes extensive revisions that reflect rapidly expanding research and clinical advances, including breakthrough drug and immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors, immunotherapies for cancer, precision medicine, and transfusion medicine.
  • Contains new chapters on COVID-19, immune responses, and the role of the immune system; immunoregulatory deficiencies; immune checkpoints; CAR T cells, including new cellular-based immunotherapy; gene therapy, including CRISPR and gene selection; and a clinically focused chapter on asthma.
  • Provides new genetics content focused on data applications.
  • Addresses notable advances in key areas such as the importance of the microbiota to normal immune system development and to the pathogenesis of immunologic and inflammatory diseases; relationships between the innate and adaptive immune systems; progress in rapid and cost-effective genomics; cell signaling pathways and the structure of cell-surface molecules; and many more.
  • Covers hot topics such as the role of genetics and genomics in immune response and immunologic disease, atherosclerosis, recurrent fever syndromes, aging and deficiencies of innate immunity, the role of microbiota in normal immune system development and in the pathogenesis of immunologic and inflammatory diseases, and novel therapeutics.
  • Features a user-friendly format with color-coded boxes highlighting critical information on Key Concepts, Clinical Pearls, Clinical Relevance, and Therapeutic Principles.
  • Summarizes promising research and development anticipated over the next 5–10 years with "On the Horizon" boxes and discussions of translational research.
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Readership

Practicing clinical immunologists; immunology/allergy, oncology fellows

Table of contents

PART I Principles of Immune Response

1 The Human Immune Response

2 Organization of the Immune System

3 Innate Immunity

4 Antigen Receptor Genes, Gene Products, and Co-Receptors

5 The Major Histocompatibility Complex

6 Antigens and Antigen Presentation

7 B-Cell Development and Differentiation

8 Immunoglobulin Function

9 T-Cell Development

10 T-Cell Activation and Tolerance

11 Helper T-Cell Subsets and Control of the Inflammatory Response

12 Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Natural Killer Cells

13 Regulatory Immune Cells

14 Cytokines and Cytokine Receptors

15 Chemokines and Chemokine Receptors

16 Lymphocyte Adhesion and Trafficking

17 Death Pathways and Immunogenicity
PART II Fundamentals of Host-Environmental Interactions

18 Human Genomics in Immunology

19 Regulatory RNA in Immunologic Diseases

20 Immunometabolism

21 Immune Deficiencies at the Extremes of Age

22 The Microbiota in Immunity and Inflammation
PART III Host Defenses to Infectious Agents

23 Immunology of the Skin

24 Immunology of Mucosal Surfaces

25 Host Defenses to Viruses

26 Host Defenses to Intracellular Bacteria

27 Host Defenses to Extracellular Bacteria, Including Spirochetes

28 Host Defenses to Fungi

29 Host Defenses to Protozoa

30 Host Defenses to Helminth Infection

31 Emerging Pandemic Infectious Disease Threats
PART IV Immune Deficiency and Immune Regulatory Disorders

32 Approach to the Evaluation of the Patient With Suspected Immunodeficiency

33 Primary Antibody Deficiencies

34 Primary T-Cell Immunodeficiencies

35 Genetic Disorders of Interferons-, Interleukin-17, Interleukin-18, and Nuclear Factor-κB-Mediated Immunity

36 Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis

37 Autoinflammatory Syndromes

38 Immune Regulatory Disorders

39 Neutrophils and Neutrophil Disorders

40 Complement and Complement Disorders

41 Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

42 Autoantibody-Mediated Phenocopies of Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases
PART V Allergic Diseases

43 Allergic Airway Diseases

44 Mast Cells and Mast Cell Disorders

45 Eosinophils and Eosinophilic Disorders

46 Urticaria, Angioedema, and Anaphylaxis

47 Allergic Reactions to Stinging and Biting Insects

48 Atopic and Contact Dermatitis

49 Food Allergy

50 Drug Hypersensitivity
PART VI Systemic Immune Diseases

51 Mechanisms of Autoimmunity

52 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

53 Rheumatoid Arthritis

54 Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

55 Sjögren’s Syndrome

56 Scleroderma-Systemic Sclerosis

57 Inflammatory Muscle Diseases

58 Spondyloarthritis

59 Small- and Medium-Vessel Primary Vasculitis

60 Large Vessel Vasculitides

61 Antiphospholipid Syndrome
PART VII Organ-Specific Inflammatory Disease

62 Immunohematologic Disorders

63 Bullous Diseases of the Skin and Mucous Membranes

64 Immunology of Psoriasis

65 Myasthenia Gravis

66 Multiple Sclerosis

67 Autoimmune Peripheral Neuropathies

68 Immunologic Renal Diseases

69 Immunologic Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis and Myocarditis

70 Autoimmune Thyroid Diseases

71 Type 1 Diabetes

72 Immunologic Lung Diseases, 919

73 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Emphysema

74 Immunologic Ocular Disease

75 Immunologic Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract

76 Inflammatory Hepatobiliary Diseases
PART VIII Immunology and Immunotherapy of Neoplasia

77 Lymphoid Leukemias

78 Lymphomas

79 Monoclonal Gammopathies

80 Immune Responses to Solid Tumors and Immune Checkpoint Therapy

81 CAR T-Cell Therapy
PART IX Medical Management of Immunological Diseases

82 Immunoglobulin Therapy: Replacement and Immunomodulation

83 Glucocorticoids

84 Immunomodulating Drugs

85 Protein Kinase Antagonists

86 Biologic Response Modifiers

87 Vaccines

88 Allergen Immunotherapy for Allergic Diseases
PART X Transplantation

89 Solid Organ Transplantation: Rejection, Immunosuppression, and Tolerance

90 Allogeneic Transplantation for Immunodeficiency

91 Gene Therapy for Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases

92 Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Malignant Diseases
PART XI Diagnostic Immunology

93 Flow Cytometry

94 Assessment of Functional Immune Responses in Lymphocytes

95 Assessment of Neutrophil Function

96 Assessment of Human Allergic Diseases
Appendix 1: Selected CD Molecules and Their Characteristics
Appendix 2: Laboratory Reference Values
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 23, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

RR

Robert R. Rich

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA

TF

Thomas A. Fleisher

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, USUHA, Chief, Department of Laboratory Medicine, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA

HS

Harry W. Schroeder Jr.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Genetics, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Director, UAB Program in Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

CW

Cornelia M. Weyand

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine: Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford, CA, USA

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