KROK 1 2011 – Question 2 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
Quite often the cause of secondary immunodeficiency is an infection involvement, when the causative agents propagate directly in the cells of immune system and destroy it. The following diseases are characterized by:
- A. Q-febris, epidemic typhus
- B. Poliomyelitis, type A hepatitis
- C. Dysentery, cholera
- D. Tuberculosis, mycobacteriosis
- E. Infectious mononucleosis, AIDS
Hint
Ask which pathogens use immune cells themselves as host cells, so that their replication removes the very cells that organise defence.
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