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Joseph A. Bellanti, MD, FAAP, FACAAI, FAAAAI.
Annals of allergy, asthma immunology official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, Immunology
Lawrence Dean Frenkel
36561830
Immunology IV: Clinical Applications in Health and Disease by Joseph A. Bellanti
1063 pages, 800 color figures, Hardcover, I Care Press, Bethesda MD, 2012 Price: 99 US$ including a 2 year subscription to the online version For orders: http:/www.immunologycenter.org The final comment I usually make when reviewing a book is about its cost. On this occasion, however, I should like to start just with this because readers will finally welcome a book with a low price but, mainly, with an extraordinary cost to value ratio. In fact, why should we spend a fortune to buy expensive books, which rapidly become out dated, when Internet access offers us a massive and updated scientific information? The answer is often confined to the pleasure of senses that only an elegant, paper smelling concrete object with attractive colored pictures may give. This is certainly the case for this hardcover textbook, 1063 pages of high quality paper and 800 color illustrations. But this is not the only reason that fired on my enthusiasm for the book of Joseph A. Bellanti. First, the editor and the 2 coeditors (Aleandro Escobar Gutierrez and George E. Tsokos) certainly aware of the potential limitations of the printed scientific information versus the electronic one, offer in addition to this completely rewritten fourth 2012 Edition of one of the most famous allergy and clinical immunology textbooks, a complementary online version included in the cost of the book. This allows interactive multilevel learning and teaching by providing animations, hyperlinks, clinical case studies with questions and answers and, mainly, access to a continuously updated version of the book. Second, the authors of the 25 chapters were selected among the most qualified experts for each topic, without anyway compromising the homogeneity of the textbook, made possible by the direct participation of the editor among authors of several chapters. This avoids the omissions or repetitions often found in many textbooks. Finally, the book fully respects the transversal nature of the discipline of allergy and clinical immunology by covering, from bench to bedside: cells, cytokines and mediators of the immune response, immunodeficiencies, allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, immune response to cancer, lymphoproliferative diseases, and transplantation immunology. The above chapters are complemented by specific chapters on laboratory tests and on the most recent treatments, including vaccines, each one enriched by excellent summarizing tables (for instance, I never saw such a useful comprehensive table as the 5 page table on immune response modifiers) I have to disclose a potential conflict of interest in reviewing this book: I am certainly influenced by the great admiration I have for Joseph Bellanti, as a scientist, as a doctor, and as one of the pioneer mentors of the discipline of allergy and clinical immunology, from whom I personally learned the first basics at the beginning of my career. However, I do not feel it influenced in anyway my very positive opinion on what Bellanti and coworkers were able to achieve. In fact, I do think that the textbook of Joseph A. Bellanti is the ideal reference not only for pregraduate and postgraduate students and residents but also a crucial resource for all researchers and doctors Sergio Bonini Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
The World Allergy Organization Journal
S Bonini
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Joseph A. Bellanti (ed) Immunology IV: Clinical Applications in Health and Disease
This is an updated expanded revision of Dr. Bellanti's Immunology I, II, and III texts published in 1971, 1978, and 1985. The first edition was a single column, 584 page book while this edition is double columned and has 1,063 pages. In the 27 years since these editions, clinical immunology has exploded with new illnesses, new diagnostic tests, new treatments, and improved prognoses. The editors, along with the help of 38 contributors, do an admirable job of updating the field for medical students, residents, fellows, and sophisticated clinicians. As in the earlier volumes, there are three sections: the first is The Principles of Immunology (ten chapters) including basic immunology, developmental immunology, innate immunity, complement, inflammation, T cells and lymphocytes, B cells and immunoglobulins, mucosal immunity, cytokines and chemokines, and immunogenetics. Next is Mechanisms of Response (five chapters) including immunomodulation and responses to bacteria, virus, fungi, and parasites. The final section is Clinical Applications (ten chapters) including immunodeficiencies, hypersensitivity, autoimmunity, cancer, transplantation, laboratory diagnosis, and molecular biology. Appendices include tables of leukocyte antigens (CDs) interleukins, cytokines and chemokines, and acronyms. Rarely does an editor devotes as much to a text as has Dr. Bellanti; he authored or coauthored 15 of the chapters and supervised and selected most of the clinical photos, illustrations, clinical cases, and summaries. The text is lavishly illustrated: nearly every page has a photograph, a color figure, a short table, or a highlighted box for complex concepts. The emphasis as a teaching text is manifested by inserts or sections on case reports, clinical relevance, key points, study questions/critical thinking, and suggested readings (instead of detailed references) An online downloadable edition comes with purchase of the book. The book is too detailed for an introductory text, too short for the advanced immunologist seeking cutting edge advances (with references) and too general for the clinician seeking diagnostic guidelines and evidence based treatment options. Who should buy this book? Immunology IV is ideal for an advanced course in immunology, for hospital and departmental libraries, for specialists and for physicians studying for board exams in allergy and immunology, rheumatology, or hematology. The online illustrations will be particularly useful to anyone preparing a presentation on any aspect of clinical immunology. And compared with competing texts, the price of $99 is right.
Journal of Clinical Immunology
E Richard Stiehm
79511150
Immunology IV: Clinical Applications in Health and Disease, J.A. Bellanti, A. Escobar Guiterrez, G.C. Tsokos. I Care Press, Bethesda, MD (2012) $99
Gailen D Marshall
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Pawlu Bellanti u l hidma letterarja tieghu
Leanne Schembri
193696235
Michele Bellanti is sejba tas salib minn Santa Liena
Philip Xuereb
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Ileal lymphoid nodular hyperplasia, non specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children
The Lancet
Aderbal Sabra Joseph A Bellanti Angel R Colon
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Bellanti JA dan Kadlec JV. 1993. Prinsip prinsip Imunologi. Yogyakarta: Gajah
Rudolf R Damanik Zul Asfi Arroyhan Daulay Soeleman Saragih R Premier Naiyana Wattanapenpaiboon
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In difesa dell'astrologia risposte a Pico in Bellanti e Pontano
Ornella Pompeo Faracovi
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An Interview with Robert Bellanti, Head of the UCLA Rosenfeld Management Library from 1982 2002
M Rita Costello