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.