Manual of Clinical Immunology

TLDR

The manual serves as a sequel to the well‑accepted Manual of Clinical Microbiology, filling a need for clinical and academic microbiologists. It aims to provide a comprehensive guide to immunology as it relates to the clinical laboratory. The book is organized into sections covering humoral and cellular immune measurements, radioimmunoassays, and diagnostic immunology for bacterial, fungal, parasitic, viral, chlamydial, and rickettsial diseases.

Abstract

This manual is intended as a comprehensive guide to immunology as it relates to the clinical laboratory. Designed as a sequel and companion piece to the well-accepted Manual of Clinical Microbiology, this new work successfully fills an important need for both clinical and academic microbiologists.The manual is organized sectionally, with each section having a separate editor. The initial section deals with the essential technology involved in measurements of the humoral and cellular immune pathways, and is less detailed than it might be on certain more classical measures of the humoral response, including precipitin techniques, and hemagglutination as these are assumed to be covered in other sources. The section on cellular immunity is quite detailed and covers lymphokines, T and B cell enumeration and certain aspects of macrophage function. After a section on radioimmunoassays, the more conventional aspects of diagnostic immunology are considered in respect of bacterial, mycotic and parasitic infections as well as viral, chlamydial, and rickettsial diseases.