Mackay I R
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Intern Med J. 2006 Jun;36(6):394-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2006.01072.x.
Immunology originated in Europe during the latter 1900s, and applications can be discerned in colonial Australia. The actual beginnings of immunology in Australia followed Burnet's enunciation of two fundamental principles: natural immune tolerance as an acquired characteristic in 1948 and clonal selection theory in 1957. Laboratory and clinical immunology flourished at various centres from the 1950s. The Australian Society of Immunology was founded in 1971. The merger of clinical immunology with allergy in 1991 created the Australian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, exemplary for the reamalgamation of these related specialties. Australian immunology over the past 50 years has become recognized nationally and abroad as a highly visible component of the academic, research and biomedical scene and is still on a rising trajectory.
免疫学起源于20世纪后期的欧洲，在殖民时期的澳大利亚就可以看到其应用。澳大利亚免疫学的实际开端是在伯内特阐明了两条基本原则之后：1948年将自然免疫耐受性作为一种后天获得的特征，以及1957年的克隆选择理论。从20世纪50年代起，实验室和临床免疫学在各个中心蓬勃发展。澳大利亚免疫学会成立于1971年。1991年临床免疫学与过敏学合并，成立了澳大利亚临床免疫学会和过敏学会，为这些相关专业的重新合并树立了典范。在过去的50年里，澳大利亚免疫学在国内外已被公认为学术、研究和生物医学领域中一个非常突出的组成部分，并且仍处于上升趋势。
