Part I. Our secret army: how immunity works
1. Know your enemy and your friends: microbes
2. Strategy and resources: the basics of immunity
3. The infantry: complement
4. Detecting a threat: immune recognition
5. Let battle commence: inflammation
6. A flexible response: antibodies, the Holy Trinity and GOD
7. Sergeant Majors: T cells
8. Intelligence gathering: MHC molecules
9. Recruitment of allies: tolerance and cooperation
10. Recognising a threat: infectious non-self and danger
Part II. Defence challenges: confronting disease
11. Civil war: autoimmunity
12. Collateral damage: hypersensitivity
13. Occupation: transplantation
14. Battle hardened: immune memory and vaccination
16. Surrender: the ageing immune system
17. Innovative tactics: acquiring novel defence genes
18. Differing tactics: comparative immunology
19. Flying under the radar: evasion of defences
20. Supplies: diet and immunity
21. Chain of command: neuroimmunology
