Arousing the fury of the immune system : new ways to boost the body's defenses / [editor, Maya Pines].

Chevy Chase, Md. : Howard Hughes Medical Institute Office of Communications, [1998], ©1998.

78 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm

Cover title.

"A report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute."

Billions of powerful weapons to choose from / by Stephen S. Hall -- Shapes that made a revolution / by Stephen S. Hall -- When the system fails: too little or too much immunity / by Maya Pines -- Turning on and turning off the immune system / by Steven Dickman -- A bull's-eye on lyme disease / by Robert Kanigel -- Arousing the immune system through vaccines.