Bacterial Evasion of Host Immune Responses

by Petra C Oyston and Brian Henderson

Our survival as multicellular organisms requires the constant surveillance of our internal and external (mucosal) environments by the multifarious elements of the innate and acquired systems of immunity. The objective of this surveillance, expensive as it is to the organisms, is to recognise and kill invading microorganisms. Over the past fifty years the cells and mediators involved in our immune defences have been painstakingly identified. However,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521801737
• ISBN13: 9780521801737
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"