Vaccines and Immunization

Clinical Immunology & Cancer Immunotherapy

Clinical immunology is the study of diseases caused by disorders of the immune system (failure, aberrant action, and malignant growth of the cellular elements of the system). It also involves diseases of other systems, where immune reactions play a part in the pathology and clinical features.

The diseases caused by disorders of the immune system fall into two broad categories:

Immunodeficiency, in which parts of the immune system fail to provide an adequate response (examples include chronic granulomatous disease and primary immune diseases);

Autoimmunity, in which the immune system attacks its own host's body (examples include systemic lupus erythematosus, rhematoid arthritis, Hashimoto's disease and myasthenia gravis).