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Defects in humoral defences

Authoring team

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.

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