title: Recent advances in clinical immunology.
abstract: In this brief presentation I have attempted to summarize some of the major advances in basic and clinical immunology which have had an impact on clinical medicine. These have ranged from the prevention of Rh hemolytic disease to the discovery of secretory IgA and IgE and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in man to the recent knowledge of specialization, differentiation and regulation of lymphocyte populations and their application in immunotherapy of malignant disease. Further investigation in immunology should provide exciting prospects to find the solutions to diseases which heretofore had been diagnostic and therapeutic orphans.
mesh_terms: D004899:Erythroblastosis, Fetal / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007071:Immunoglobulin A, Secretory; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000032:analysis; D007167:Immunotherapy; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D011247:Pregnancy
chemical_list: D006680:HLA Antigens; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007071:Immunoglobulin A, Secretory; D007073:Immunoglobulin E