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MBChB Infection & Immunity: Session 1: Man and Microbes (The Away Team) Innate and Acquired Immunity (The Home Team) The Mucociliary Escalator: Diseases of Mucociliary Clearance (Cystic Fibrosis and Ciliary Dyskinesia) Session 2: Cells of the Immune System Anatomy of the Immune System Session 3: Bacteria - The basic facts Humoral Immunity (Antibody responses, Structure of Antibodies, Generation of Diversity) Session 4: Bacterial killing (Complement, Opsonisation, Phagocytosis) Antibody/Complement/Neutrophil Deficiencies Session 5: Bacterial Pathogenesis (how bacteria produce disease) Session 6: Fungi Protozoa and Helminths Role of CD4 positive T cells in Bacterial Killing Session 7: Viruses Session 8: Antiviral Immunity Cell co-operation in the Immune Response Session 9: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Principles of Immunisation Session 10: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Hospital Infection

Recommended Reading:

Other, more detailed works include:

• Kuby, J. "Immunology" W.H.Freeman, 1997

• "Cellular and Molecular Immunology" by Abbas, Lichtman and Pober, 3rd Ed, 1997.

• "Immunology" by Roitt, Brostoff and Male, 5th Ed, 1998.

• "Mim's Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease" Mims C, Dimmock N, Nash A, Stephen J. 4th Ed, 1995.

• Glossary of Virology
• Glossary of Immunology
• Online Dictionary of Epidemiology