Correction, Vol. 8, No. 7

As infection and immune reaction are so intricately intertwined, this book is valuable reading to anyone interested in infectious diseases in humans. Maybe in the future prions will have to be included as a new type of infectious agent whose rise we are just now witnessing. (Information on prion pathology is still hotly debated, and data on routes of transmission and immune system reactions are still scarce.) The book is a handy and manageable length. In contrast to many standard textbooks of immunology, Immunology of Infectious Diseases is text oriented. Except for a central insert of color plates, figures are in black and white only. Each chapter contains an alphabetical list of references. Because of its accessible modular structure, this textbook is easy to navigate, rendering it easy to use. The book is suitable for anyone with a background in cell biology and basic immunology. Advanced undergraduate students and postgraduates with a grasp of the main groups of leukocytes and immune effector mechanisms, as well as specialists in other subdisciplines, will find this textbook to be a highly useful and readable introduction to the immune system’s mainstay, the battle against infection.