Immunology of Parasitic Infections

Abstract

Book reviews would also find it useful.Both groups are zoal and helminth diseases are discussed, likely to be deterred by the price from each by an expert, in relation to modem buying it.immunological ideas.In each case there J. BURSTON is a chapter on diagnosis and another on the immune response with an indication of the prospects for vaccination.The high Acute Diarrhoea in Childhood.Ciba and uniform standard here surely reflects Symposium 42 (new series).Edited by the guiding influence of the editors, who Katherine Elliott and Julie Knight.supply, in useful chapters of their own, (Pp.ix + 375; illustrated; $26-95 approx.)enough general immunology and para- Amsterdam: Oxford: New York: Excerp-sitology to save the reader having to keep ta Medica.1976.consulting other texts.Seldom has a book been so urgently needed, and seldom does This book, compiled from a Ciba Sympo-a new book so precisely fill its biblio- sium held in October 1975, shows how logical niche.The layout is clear, with recent advances in bacteriology, virology, good diagrams and up-to-date references, and epidemiology have improved our though there are rather a lot of minor understanding ofenteritis.Bacterial patho-misprints.At the price it is an excellent genesis is explained, but their identifica-buy for libraries and immunology and tion as pathogens when isolated is still parasitology laboratories.uncertain.A discussion of the inhibitory