Basic Immunology, 7th Edition: A Comprehensive Guide for Medical Students

By Abul Abbas MBBS, Andrew Lichtman MD PhD, Shiv Pillai MBBS PhD

Overview: This meticulously reviewed and updated text is designed for today’s medical students. It provides a concise and easy-to-understand overview of the immune system, including recent advances in understanding and knowledge. The book is filled with full-color illustrations, clinical images, useful tables, and practical features such as Summary Point boxes, end-of-chapter review questions, glossary terms, and clinical cases to help students master this complex topic efficiently.

Key Features:

• Clinical Aspects of Immunology: The book emphasizes clinical aspects of immunology, including disease pathogenesis, the development of novel therapies based on basic science, and an appendix of clinical cases for real-world application.
• New and Expanded Content: It contains new and expanded content on pandemics, COVID-19, and herd immunity; resistance and susceptibility to COVID-19; RNA vaccines and hybrid viral vaccines; tumor immunotherapy; innate immune responses to viruses; mechanisms of immunologic tolerance; and immunotherapy for autoimmune, allergic, and other inflammatory diseases, and cancer.
• Expert Author Team: The book is written by an expert author team, all of whom are experienced teachers, course directors, and lecturers.
• Highly Readable Writing Style: It features a highly readable writing style and practical organization, now with fully revised content and updated images to cover new information and improve reader understanding of complex concepts.
• Additional Online Features: It provides additional online features such as answers to in-book chapter review questions and self-assessment questions.
• Useful for Students and Teachers: The book is useful for students and teachers of medicine, allied health fields, and biology.
• Features for Better Understanding: It contains numerous features designed to help students understand key immunologic concepts: high-quality illustrations, practical tables, chapter outlines, bolded key points, and focus questions in every chapter for self-assessment and review.
• eBook Version Included: An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text and figures, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Product Details:

Publisher: Elsevier

Edition: 7th edition

Publication Date: May 29, 2023

Language: English

Pages: 352

ISBN-10: 0443105197

ISBN-13: 978-0443105197