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Your body’s defender: understand immunity, health, and fighting disease.
The Immune System, 2nd Edition
A Very Short Introduction
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176 pages
- Release Date
17 December 2025
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Summary
The Immune System: A Very Short Introduction
The immune system is central to human health. Growing understanding of the immune system, and especially the creation of immune memory (which results in long-lasting protection), have led to major breakthroughs in medicine and the design of vaccines.
In this Very Short Introduction, Paul Klenerman describes the immune system and how it works in health and disease. He considers how the immune system evolved, the basic rules that go…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198936589 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198936583 |
| Author: | Paul Klenerman |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 17 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 149g |
| Dimensions: | 175mm x 112mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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About The Author
Paul Klenerman
Paul Klenerman is the Sidney Truelove Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Oxford.
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