APPLIED IMMUNOLOGY

This module reviews and examines the major components of the human immune system to obtain the theoretical basis for the laboratory testing in clinical immunology and provides student with the background to present explanations for clinical immunologic assays limitation, interpretations and malfunction. The theoretical aspect includes immune responses and complexes, the complement system, missregulations, immundeficienes, Production, use of antibodies and immune reactions-iimunoassays and Cellular Techniques focus on Plaque forming cell (PFC) assay. The students will be able to perform an ELISA or Enzyme immunoassay according to standard operating procedure (SOP) for HIV / hepatitis assays and perform and quantitate the number of CD4 T-cell lymphocytes by flow cytometery/ FACSCount.