Many of the world’s major diseases—infection, cancer, autoimmunity, and allergy—critically involve the immune system. Continued progress in understanding basic immune mechanisms is essential for developing new abilities to treat and prevent diseases that affect millions of people worldwide(1).There have been enormous advances in the field of immunology over the past three decades, and those advances have had a positive effect on many subspecialties of medicine.
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Georgiev, V.S. (2009). Introduction. In: Georgiev, V.S. (eds) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH. Infectious Disease. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-297-1_37
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