The bugs we carry and how our immune system fights them
- Written by Peter C. Doherty, Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
The immune system has to establish which cells belong to us and which are foreign, no mean feat. www.shutterstock.comThis article is part of a three-part package exploring immunity and infectious diseases around the world.
Human beings are large, complex, multicellular, multi-organ systems. We reproduce slowly and rely on a breadth of mechanisms...