Product Description: Virus diseases continue to represent serious health problems in most parts of the world. In spite of the fact that diseases such as polio­ myelitis and measles have been controlled in the industrialized countries by vaccination, vaccines now in use in tropical countries have proved not to be optimal...read more

In this volume, leading experts offer key findings on how the immune system reacts to a wide variety of pathogens. An excellent text for graduate courses and for educators, the book includes a useful update on the functioning of the immune system and complete coverage of such diseases as influenza, polio, hepatitis B, and deymelinating encepphalitis. The book also includes an informative discussion of autoimmune responses in the brain.