The body's defense mechanism against foreign organisms or substances and deviant native cells. It includes the humoral immune response and the cell-mediated response and consists of a complex of interrelated cellular, molecular, and genetic components.
    

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Three ghoulish faces attacking three figures wearing white coats bearing the letters 'T'; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph by MB.

The immune system: fighting viruses in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Peace Corps Volunteers and PEFPFAR, 2007.

HIV and the immune system / NAM.

Creamalin hidroxido de alumio ... : Omnadina terapia inmunizante no especifica ... / Winthrop.

Three ghoulish faces being sprayed by three figures wearing white coats bearing the letters 'T'; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph by MB.

Nature reviews. Immunology

Lymph-stasis, or, retardation of lymph as an element in the causation of disease, especially in regard to scrofula and tuberculosis / by Wayland C. Chaffey.

Phylogenetic perspectives on the vertebrate immune system / edited by Gregory Beck, Manickam Sugumaran, and Edwin L. Cooper.

Trends in immunology

The body at war : the story of our immune system / John Dwyer.

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Nature reviews. Immunology

Lymph-stasis, or, retardation of lymph as an element in the causation of disease, especially in regard to scrofula and tuberculosis / by Wayland C. Chaffey.

Phylogenetic perspectives on the vertebrate immune system / edited by Gregory Beck, Manickam Sugumaran, and Edwin L. Cooper.

Trends in immunology

The body at war : the story of our immune system / John Dwyer.