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IMMUNOBIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD DISEASES
Author(s) -
JOSE DAVID G.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1974.tb01103.x
Subject(s) - medicine , immune system , disease , immunology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
SYNOPSIS A large part of clinical paediatrics deals with infectious disease, inflammatory conditions, allergy, auto‐immune disease and cancer. The immune system plays a critical role in these diseases and in addition presents a perplexing number of conditions arising from defects in the immune system itself. This review seeks to highlight immune mechanisms in selected diseases of children and to explore the clinical value of these mechanisms in terms of diagnostic or therapeutic application. Some of the principles and mechanisms involved in immune defence have been previously considered (Jose, 1973).