The Immune System: A Very Short Introduction - Klenerman, Paul (Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxfo
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Gives a succinct account of the evolution of innate and adaptive immunity, and how they operate, primarily in humans but also drawing on examples in other animals~Considers the consequences of too little immunity (immunodeficiency), caused for example by HIV/AIDS, and too much, leading to autoimmune and allergic diseases~Discusses some of the important recent advances in harnessing the immune system for immunotherapies, for example in the treatment of cancers~Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over eight million copies sold worldwide

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Gives a succinct account of the evolution of innate and adaptive immunity, and how they operate, primarily in humans but also drawing on examples in other animals~Considers the consequences of too little immunity (immunodeficiency), caused for example by HIV/AIDS, and too much, leading to autoimmune and allergic diseases~Discusses some of the important recent advances in harnessing the immune system for immunotherapies, for example in the treatment of cancers~Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over eight million copies sold worldwide
Autorenporträt
Paul Klenerman is Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Professor of Immunology at the University of Oxford. He is also Immune Theme Lead at the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. He authored the chapter on Adaptive Immunity, and co-authored that on the Hepatitis C Virus in the Oxford Textbook of Medicine.