1. Surviving in a Microbial World 2. Innate Immunity: Detect Invaders 3. Humoral Innate Immunity: Inflammation 4. Humoral Innate Immunity: Antimicrobial Peptides 5. Humoral Innate Immunity: The Complement System 6. Cellular Innate Immunity: Leucocytes and Phagocytosis 7. Cellular Innate Immunity: Macrophages and Recovery from Inflammation 8.

Sickness: The Body's Innate Responses 9. How Immune Cells Communicate: Cytokines and Their Receptors 10. Antigens: Triggers of Adaptive Immunity 11. Dendritic Cells, Antigen Processing, and Presentation 12. The Major Histocompatibility Complex 13. Lymphoid Organs: Their Structure and Function 14. Lymphocytes 15. Helper T Cells: Diverse Response to Antigens 16.

B Cells and Their Response to Antigens 17. Antibodies: Soluble Antigen Receptors 18. How Antigen-Binding Receptors Are Made 19. T Cells and the Destruction of Cell-Associated Invaders 20. Innate Lymphoid Cells 21. Regulation of Adaptive Immunity 22. The Microbiota and the Immune System 23. Immunity on Body Surfaces 24.

Immunity in the Fetus and Newborn 25. Vaccines and Their Production 26. The Use of Vaccines 27. Immunity to Bacteria and Fungi 28. Immunity to Viruses 29. Immunity to Parasites 30. Mast Cell and Eosinophil-Mediated Hypersensitivity 31. Selected Allergic Diseases 32.

Red Cell Antigens and Antibody-Mediated Hypersensitivity 33. Immune-complexes and Neutrophil-Mediated Hypersensitivity 34. T Cell-Mediated Hypersensitivity 35. Organ Graft Rejection and Pregnancy 36. Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy 37. Autoimmune Diseases and the Loss of Tolerance 38. Selected Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases 39. Selected Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases 40.

Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases 41. Secondary Immunological Defects 42. Drugs and Other Agents that Affect the Immune System 43. Immunodiagnostic Methods Glossary Index.