The author's masterly Clinical Immunology of the Dog & Cat (1st edition 1998, 2nd edition 2008) is used around the world as the text and reference of choice in small animal immunology.This new textbook, written in consultation with Professor Ronald Schultz, is designed to accompany and complement the teaching of immunology within the veterinary curriculum. The author broadens the range of species covered to include large animals as well as small, provides clear learning objectives, and focuses on immunological principles while applying them to the disease process and to clinical practice.The book uniquely contains 15 case studies dealing with clinically significant immune-mediated diseases, and is illustrated throughout by top-quality colour diagrams and photographs. The result is a concise, affordable and practical textbook for veterinary students and a handy reference for practitioners.

ForewordVeterinary immunology is one of the most recent, andthe most important, basic and clinical sciences inveterinary medicine. Veterinary immunology becamean important part of the veterinary curriculumapproximately 40 years ago when most veterinarymedical students were introduced to concepts of basicimmunology during their first or second year ofveterinary school. Clinical immunology was either aminor part of the basic immunology course or it wastaught at a later time as part of the medicine courses.During the past 40 years, information regarding basicand clinical immunology in veterinary medicine hasincreased beyond the scope of a single course.However, this textbook, Veterinary Immunology -Principles and Practice, includes both basic andclinical concepts of veterinary immunology.The author is a veterinary immunologist engagedin both basic and clinical research studies inimmunology and immunopathology. The bookprovides not only the veterinary medical student, butalso the graduate veterinarian, with excellentinformation on the basic and clinical aspects ofveterinary immunology. The basic aspects of thescience are made easily understandable to those witha limited or no knowledge of immunology. At thesame time the book provides an excellent insight intothe complexity of diseases caused by or prevented viainnate and/or adaptive immunity. The book is equallyvaluable to those with little or no understanding ofclinical medicine, as well as to those with an excellentknowledge of basic clinical medicine. This isaccomplished through the author's uniquepresentation style in which the basic concepts ofimmunology are introduced and explained, often inthe context of the mechanism for an immunemediateddisease or the immunological mechanismfor prevention or treatment of a disease. The authorhas also 'sifted and winnowed' through thecomplexities of basic medical immunology in order toprovide the reader with factual information thatapplies to most veterinary species. This book, unlikemany introductory immunology textbooks availablefor medical students and undergraduate or graduatestudents in the biological sciences, does not focus onthe myriad of information on the immunology of themouse, a favourite species of many immunologistswho perform in-vivo studies. Ironically, mostimmunologists are of the opinion that because themouse's immune system is easily manipulated for invivoand ex-vivo immunological studies, it serves as amodel for all other species. Unfortunately, this isoften not true and many of the veterinary speciesdiffer significantly among each other as well as withthe mouse regarding basic and clinical mechanisms ofdiseases caused by and/or prevented via their immunesystem. The species differences, when known, aredefined in this book. Information on differencesamong species should make this book a valuablereference for all immunologists, especially those withan interest in real animal studies. Information isincluded on food animal species, but the focus in theclinical immunology sections is on companion animalspecies, especially the dog and cat. The author haswritten a more detailed book, Clinical Immunologyof the Dog and Cat, which is beautifully illustratedwith graphs and figures, including histopathologysections of immune-mediated diseases in thesespecies. Similarly, this book is very well illustrated,but for obvious reasons does not contain the detailfound in Clinical Immunology of the Cat and Dog.I especially like this book because the veterinaryimmunology course taught to second-year veterinarymedical students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison first presents the 'Basics of VeterinaryImmunology' via eighteen didactic lectures, followedby 'Clinical Immunology' via twelve 'ClinicalCorrelates'. Additionally, there are approximatelyfifty hours in the course that includes: laboratoryexercises, such as vaccinating calves and puppies;performing clinical immunology