Immune modulation by cytokines in the treatment of opportunistic infections
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- infections of-the-immunocompromised-host
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 10 (4) , 275-280
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00001432-199708000-00005
Abstract
Opportunistic infections in the immunocompromised patient are able to evade the host immune response. The ways in which this occurs and the interaction of the different immune effector cells are discussed in this review, focusing on fungal infection (in particular Candida) as a model. It should then be possible to formulate cytokine treatment strategies to overcome the defects in host immunity in these patients.Keywords
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