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cellular immunodeficiency

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cellular immunodeficiency
n.
Any of a group of disorders associated with recurrent bacterial, fungal, protozoal, and viral infections and characterized by atrophy of the thymus gland, depressed cell-mediated immunity, and defective humoral immunity. Also called Nezelof type of thymic alymphoplasia.


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Pecher and Funchs suggested that patients with lacaziosis have a cellular immunodeficiency (5).
The mechanisms of susceptibility for TB in HD patients are, however, not completely known, but a complex cellular immunodeficiency has been attributed to HD.
It appears almost exclusively among people with cellular immunodeficiency, and it can occur with revaccination of people who have become immunosuppressed since their primary vaccination.
 
 
 
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