The fifth edition was designed to serve health care professionals in the diagnosis and management of allergic and other immunological disorders. The manual presents the basic and essential material and provides specific information to assist in clinical decision-making and treatment planning. The specialist will find this manual a convenient reference handbook, while the generalist will be able to use the Manual as a helpful guide in formulating a diagnostic and therapeutic approach to patients suspected of having an allergic or immunologic disorder. Students, house officers, and other health care professionals will find the Manual a useful guide to the clinical practice of allergy and immunology.

Introduction to the immune system / Lori Broderick, Taylor A. Doherty, and David Broide -- Immediate hypersensitivity : approach to diagnosis / Sarbjit S. Saini and Nkiruka Erekosima -- Aeroallergens and environmental factors / William Neaville, Robert Ausdenmoore, and Robert K. Bush -- Rhinitis / Candace Bouler Anz and Mark S. Dykewicz -- Sinusitis, nasal polyps, and otitis media / Ricardo A. Tan and Jonathan Corren -- Immunotherapy for inhalant allergens / Harold S. Nelson -- Allergic and immunologic disorders of the eye / Leonard Bielory -- Asthma diagnosis / Stephen C. Lazarus -- Asthma treatment / Joel M. Hartman [and others] -- Immunologic diseases of the lung / Shefalee Amin, Michelle Zeidler, and Eric Kleerup -- Atopic dermatitis and contact dermatitis / Mark Boguniewicz, Marcella Aquino, and Luz Fonacier -- Urticaria and angioedema / Jeffrey R. Stokes and Mark H. Moss -- Anaphylaxis / Phil Lieberman and Debendra Pattanaik -- Insect allergy / David B.K. Golden -- Drug allergy / David A. Khan -- Allergic and non-allergic reactions to food / Stephen R. Boden and A. Wesley Burks -- Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders / Terri F. Brown-Whitehorn [and others] -- Primary immunodeficiency diseases / Shradha Agarwal and Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles -- Approach to the patient with recurrent infections / Zuhair K. Ballas -- Diagnostic immunology / Thomas A. Fleisher, Joao Bosco Oliveira, and Jack J.H. Bleesing -- Adverse responses to vaccines / John M. Kelso -- Complementary medicine in allergy and immunology / Timothy Ryan Mainardi and Leonard Bielory -- Building related illness / Jessica Savage and Robert A. Wood.