Original Article

Immunology and Cell Biology (1992) 70, 159–171; doi:10.1038/icb.1992.21

Autoimmunity: Paradigms of Burnet and complexities of today

Presented as the Burner Oration of the Australian Society for Immunology, December 1991.

Ian R Mackay1

1Centre For Molecular Biology and Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Correspondence: Ian R. Mackay, Centre for Molecular Biology and Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia.

Accepted 26 March 1992.

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