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mixed cellular & humoral immune dysfunction
Etiology:
1) common variable hypogammaglobulinemia
2) ataxia telangiectasia
3) severe combined immunodeficiency
4) Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
5) diabetes mellitus
6) hyper IgE syndrome (Job's syndrome)
Pathology: Pathogens:
1) common variable hypogammaglobulinemia
a) Pneumocystis carinii
b) cytomegalovirus
c) Streptococcus pneumoniae
d) Haemophilus influenzae
e) other bacteria
2) ataxia telangiectasia
a) Streptococcus pneumoniae
b) Haemophilus influenzae
c) Staphylococcus aureus
d) rubella virus
e) Giardia lamblia
3) severe combined immunodeficiency
a) Streptococcus pneumoniae
b) Haemophilus influenzae
c) Staphylococcus aureus
d) Candida albicans
e) Pneumocystis carinii
f) varicella-zoster virus
g) rubella virus
h) cytomegalovirus
4) Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
-> agents seen in cellular & humoral immune dysfunction
Related
cellular immune dysfunction
humoral immune dysfunction
Specific
combined immune deficiency; severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID CID)
common variable immunodeficiency (CVID)
hyperimmunoglobulin E (Job's syndrome)
immune dysfunction in diabetes mellitus
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (eczema-thrombocytopenia-immunodeficiency syndrome)
General
immunodeficiency; immunodeficiency syndrome
References
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th ed.
Isselbacher et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1994, pg 497