defects in cellular defences

Last reviewed 01/2018

DEFENCE: DISORDERED INFECTIVE FUNCTION WITH: COMPLICATION:

  • circulating aplastic anaemia, Gram -ve rods phagocytes cytotoxic drugs fungi

  • fixed hyposplenism Pneumococcal sepsis phagocytes

  • T cells Hodgkin's disease Varicella zoster AIDS C. albicans Pneumocystis carinii

Ref: Cohen J. (1993). Medicine International, 21(1), 14.