Aspects of Autoimmune Diseases

… This book is a concise review of the medically important aspects of autoimmune diseases. It covers both the basic and clinical immunology aspects. It also discusses important diseases using definition, epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, clinical features, and immune mechanisms. Its two major aims are: (a) provide students who are currently taking clinical immunology courses with a brief and up-to-date source of information. (b) provide the reader with an accurate source of clinically relevant information at a level appropriate for those beginning their medical education. This edition presents current, medically important information in the rapidly changing fields of clinical immunology. It contains many color micrographs of infected people with diseases.