General Starting Resources

Books:

• The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine. Edited by Charles B. Clayman, MD. New York: Random House,1989 REF/610.321/AME
• Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary 27th ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1988. REF/610.3/DOR
• Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition. Edited by Robert Berkow, MD, Mark H. Beers, MD, and Andrew J. Fletcher, MB,BChir. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck Research laboratories,1997. REF 615/MER (Section 16: Immune Disorders, p. 807 ff.)
• Oxford Medical Companion. Edited by John Walton, Jeremiah A. Barondess, and Stephen Lock. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. REF/610/OXF
• Genetics books found in the 575.1 and 576 sections of the Herbst Library.

Internet:

• MedLine provides access information through the Health Topics.
• Merck Manual includes an extensive section on immunology
• Look up the immune deficiency disease with Britannica Online
• Search for the immune deficiency disease on Healthfinder (at http://www.healthfinder.gov) or use the healthfinder health library topics..
• National Institutes of Health: Health Information Resources ( http://www.nih.gov/health/ )
• Locate your diease in the Health Topics A-Z section of MedLine, Medical information from the National Library of Medicine

Individual Disease Resources

ADA deficiency (Adenosine deaminase deficiency)

• Adenosine Diaminase. Worthington Enzyme Manual.

Agammaglobulinemia (also called X-linked Agammaglobulinemia and Bruton Agammaglobulinemia) and Primary Agammaglobulinemia)

• Agammaglobulinemia Disease information from NIH. Includes description, clinical features, inheritances, molecular genetics, diagnosis, and database links.
• Information from the Doctor's Medical Library

AIDS

• Information about AIDS/HIV from the CDC (Center for Disease Control)

Allergies

• AllAllgery (Gateway to All Asthma, Allergy and Intolerance Information on the Web) includes articles, publications, tips, topic headings, organizations, and more.

Burkitt's Lymphoma

• Burkitt's Center Resources; Site created in memory of Jeffry Alan Martin who died of Burkitt's Lymphoma.

Duncan disease (also called X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome)

• ALPS (Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome) site of NIH

Epstein Barr Virus (EBV)

• Information about EBV (Epstein-Barr Virus) and Infectious Mononucleosis from the CDC (Center for Disease Control)

Hyper IgM syndrome

• Use NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders) to search for information about Hyper IgM

Immune defect due to absence of thymus

• Information from NIH

Leukemia

• MedLine provides information about leukemia. Access information through the cancer section of Health Topics. Or use the search function to access this database.
• Access Information about Leukemia from through the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Lupus or Systemic Lupus Erythematosis

• Lupus Foundation web site

Measles (also known as Rubella)

• Measles information from MedLine (the National Library of Medicine) 
• The CDC (Center for Disease Control) provides information and publications about measles through http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/ Search for measles.

Multiple Sclerosis

• National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) home page with many links to information about MS.

SCID (Severe combined immune deficiency

• The SCID home page created by Barbara Ballard, parent of a child with SCID, in collaboration with Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.

Additional Internet Resources

For more resources, use Google to search the Internet. Enter the immune deficiency disease. If the disease is more than one word, be sure to use quotation marks. To limit search, add "immune deficiency" and/or disease.

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Last updated 2 January 2007