The 24 papers discuss specificity and degeneracy in antigen recognition as yin and yang in the immune system, the in-vivo activation of antigen-specific CD4 T cells, the non-cytolytic control of viral infections by the innate and adaptive immune response, the regulation of the natural killer cell receptor repertoire, the immunological synapse, multiple viral strategies of HTLV-1 for the dys-regulation of cell growth control, the design of vaccines against Helicobacter pylori and their development, B-cell development pathways, the IRF family of transcription factors as regulators of host defense, interleukin- 10 and its receptor, and other topics. There is no introductory matter. A subject index for the volume is augmented by cumulative series indexes of authors and titles. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less