defects in humoral defences

Last reviewed 01/2018

DEFENCE: DISORDERED INFECTIVE FUNCTION WITH: COMPLICATION:

• non-specific e.g. lysozyme, IFN

• acute phase congenital Neisseria spp. proteins complement e.g. complement deficiency

• specific hypogamma- reccurrent infection antibodies globulinaemia H. influenzae Strep. pneumoniae

Ref: Cohen J., Medicine International, Vol 21:1, January 1993 p 14.