KROK 1 2009 – Question 4 · 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. Tuberculosis, mycobacteriosis
- B. Q-febris, epidemic typhus
- C. Infectious mononucleosis, AIDS
- D. Poliomyelitis, type A hepatitis
- E. Dysentery, cholera
Hint
Ask which pair of infections has immune cells themselves, such as lymphocytes, as the main site of pathogen replication.
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