Host Resistance and Immune Aging

Immune mechanisms and host resistance in the trauma patient.

Sepsis is responsible for 75 percent of late deaths following major thermal injury or traumatic injury. Efforts to prevent and/or control sepsis should include an understanding of normal host resistance, proper resuscitation techniques, and nutritional support. Recent studies identifying T suppressor cell abnormalities in burn patients and macrophage defects in trauma patients are presented in ...

resistance of candida albicans biofilms to drugs and the host immune system

conclusion mature biofilms were found to be much more resistant to antifungal agents and the host immune system than free cells. the factors responsible for high resistance included the complex architecture of biofilms, ecm, increased expression of drug efflux pumps, and metabolic plasticity. objectives the present work investigated certain aspects of the resistance of c. albicans biofilms to d...

Immune Suppression and Resistance

Host Immune Deficiency in Immune Complex Nephritis1

Evidence is reviewed that indicates that an immune deficiency state may underlie patients with immune complex nephritis. Studies in several laboratories provide data that show defective immune function in patients with nephritis at the following loci: defective immunoglobulin production, impaired monocyte Fc and C3b receptor function, diminished complement biosynthesis, and decreased mesangial ...

Host Resistance and Hospital Infection

j Uch has been learned about the behaviour of the microbes that cause Section in hospitals and this epidemiological knowledge has helped to reduce Joss-infection by organisms from outside the patient. Thus, for example, ^vances have been made in preventing airborne infection in operating eatres and in excluding extraneous bacteria from surgical wounds, from abies' skin, and from the urinary tra...