VTMED 6571 - [Veterinary Clinical Immunology]

Spring. Not offered: 2023-2024. Next offered: 2024-2025. 0.5 credits. S/U grades only.

Enrollment limited to: second- and third-year veterinary students.

J. Felippe.

Clinical immunology applies the knowledge of basic immunology to clinical conditions, allowing better understanding of pathophysiology of diseases, improvement of diagnosis, and treatment of modalities. The course will consist of topic lectures and peer-reviewed manuscript discussions on autoimmunity and allergy, immunodeficiency, immunologic testing and immunotherapy, inflammation; immunology of infectious diseases and vaccinology, immunology of cancer, and immunogenetics. Both small and large animal conditions will be discussed.