Clinical Immunology and Allergology is a field of modern medicine that studies the structure and principles of the human immune system, the mechanisms of immunopathology and allergopathology formation, and the development and implementation of immunotropic drugs into clinical practice. This textbook covers clinical immunology and allergology for students of the second (master's) level of higher education in specialties 222 "Medicine," 228 "Pediatrics," intern doctors, doctors attending specialization cycles and thematic improvement of continuous professional development, and postgraduate students (PhD). The material is presented based on modern scientific achievements and generalized clinical domestic and world experience in this field. In view of modern realities, the textbook: • describes the structure of fundamental and applied knowledge in clinical immunology and allergology; • presents the main problematic issues of immunopathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with immunopathology and allergopathology; • reveals the main mechanisms of immunopathology and allergopathology formation; • covers modern methods of laboratory immunological diagnostics; • describes the stages of immune response and the main types of its regulation; • focuses on the presentation of the most common hybridoma and recombinant biotechnologies, thanks to which new immunotropic drugs have been developed; • offers methods of immunoreconstruction and immune rehabilitation; • considers the legal aspects of providing highly specialized immunological medical care to patients with immunopathology and allergopathology. The book is intended for master's level students of higher medical education, practicing clinical immunologists, allergologists, pediatric immunologists and allergologists, a wide range of doctors of other specialties - therapists, pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, rheumatologists, pediatric rheumatologists, obstetricians-gynecologists, reproductologists, oncologists, and other specialists in the field of immunology and allergology. Contents: Section 1. Basic knowledge about the immune system and methods of its assessment Section 2. Fundamentals of immunotherapy and immunoprophylaxis Section 3. Anti-infectious immunity Section 4. Impairment of the protective role of the immune system in the human body Section 5. Impairment of immune response regulation and immunopathology Section 6. Genetically and epigenetically determined impairments of immune response Authors: V.V. Chopyak, A.M. Havryliuk, S.O. Zubchenko et al.; edited by Valentyna Chopyak, Anna Havryliuk Endorsement: Recommended by the Academic Council of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Publisher: All-Ukrainian Specialized Publishing House "Meditsyna" Language: Ukrainian Year: 2024 Number of pages: 479 (black and white)