Includes index.

Contents: Introduction to infection, resistance, and immunity -- Host-parasite relationship -- Constitutive host resistance -- The inflammatory response: a bridge between the constitutive and inducible systems -- The inducible systems: history of development of immunology as a component of host-parasite interactions -- The inducible system: antigens -- The inducible defense system: antibody molecules and antigen-antibody relations -- The inducible defense system: the induction and development of the inducible defense -- Specific host resistance; the effector mechanisms -- Immunologically mediated diseases and allergic reactions -- The host response to grafts and transplantation immunology -- The immunological system and neoplasia -- Comparative immunology -- Pathogenicity and virulence -- Bacteria -- The viruses -- The parasitic protozoa and helminth worms -- The fungi -- Immunization -- Immunological tests for diagnosis of disease and identification of molecules -- Epidemiology, disease transmission, prevention, and control.