Immunology of Human Infection, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
Part II: Viruses and Parasites; Immunodiagnosis and Prevention of Infectious Diseases
Comprehensive Immunology Series, Vol. 9

When we were first approached by the senior editors of this series to edit a book on interactions between the host and infectious agents, we acceptedthis offer as an exciting challenge. The only condition, readily agreed upon, was that such a book should focus on the immunology of infections in humans. Our reasons, if not biases, were severalfold. We sensed that the fields of microbiology and im­ munolgy, which had diverged as each was focusing on its individual search, were coming together. In agreement with the opinions expressed by Dr. Richard Krause in the Introduction, we strongly believed that the development of the immune system evolved in response to infectious agents and that the evolution of these agents was influenced in turn by the character of the host's responses. An inten­ sive examination of the multitude of primitive or more recently developed host defense mechanisms to determine their relative contribution to man's resistance to a given infectious agent appeared to us to be of crucial basic· and practical interest. Many immune mechanisms studied in animals were being explored in humans and it appeared timely to focus particularly on what was known about man's resistance to infectious agents, correlating this information with lessons learned from relevant experiments in animal models.

Viruses.- 1 Immunology of Poxviruses.- 2 Immunology of Herpes Simplex Viruses.- 3 Immunology of Varicella-Zoster Virus.- 4 Immunology of Cytomegalovirus.- 5 Immunology of Epstein-Barr Virus.- 6 Immunology of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Viruses.- 7 Immunology of Respiratory Viruses.- 8 Immunology of Enteroviruses.- 9 Immunology of Hepatitis Viruses.- 10 Immunology of Human Papovaviruses.- 11 Immunology of Rabies, Arbovirus Encephalitis, Parainfectious Encephalitis, and Guillain-Barré Syndrome.- 12Immunology of Oncornaviruses.- Parasites.- 13 Immunology of Parasites: General Aspects.- 14 Immunology of Toxoplasma gondii.- 15 Immunology of Pneumocystis carinii.- 16 Immunology of Malaria.- 17 Immunology of Amebas, Giardia, and Trichomonads.- 18 Immunology of Schistosomes.- 19 Immunology of Trypanosomes.- 20 Immunology of Helminths.- Immunodiagnosis.- 21 Immunodiagnosis: Antibodies in Body Fluids.- 22 Immunodiagnosis: Detection of Antigens in Body Fluids.- Immunoprevention.- 23 Immunoprevention of Infectious Diseases.