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Edited by N. Rezaei, A. Aghamohammadi, and L. D. Notarangelo
358 pp, $149
New York, NY, Springer, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-3-5407-8537-8

JAMA. 2009;302(9):1006-1007.

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Comprehensive books devoted to the primary immunodeficiency diseases are exceedingly few, but this is the second such text published in the past 3 years. The first, Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases: A Molecular and Genetic Approach (2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2007), has been generally regarded by experts in the field as their "bible." It is an extensive and detailed reference work—a multiauthored book of 726 pages specifying all aspects of these diseases but with an emphasis on genetic defects and research.

Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases: Definition, Diagnosis, and Management is a new 358-page book edited by 3 colleagues—2 from an active center in Tehran, the third a well-known expert from Harvard Medical School. It provides a useful and easy-to-read update, covering most of the disorders associated with defects in lymphocytes, phagocytes, and complement. This is needed because of the extraordinarily rapid advances in the understanding and treatment of primary immunodeficiency disease during . . . [Full Text of this Article]

A. D. B. Webster, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, Reviewer
Department of Immunology
University College Medical School
London, United Kingdom
adbwebster@btinternet.com

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