[Immune response of Hansen's disease. Review]. / Respuesta inmunitaria de la enfermedad de Hansen. Revisión.
Invest Clin
; 50(4): 513-27, 2009 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-20306725
ABSTRACT
Hansen's disease presents a wide spectrum of clinical and histopathological manifestations that reflect the nature of the immunological response of the host towards diverse Mycobacterium leprae components. The immunological system, composed by both innate and adaptive immunology, offers protection towards infections of various etiologies, among them bacterial. Bacteria, of course, have developed multiple strategies for evading host defenses, based on either very complex or simple mechanisms, but with a single purpose:
to "resist" host attacks and to be able to survive. We have tried to summarize some recent studies in Hansen's disease, with more emphasis in the inmunology area. We think that in the future, all illnesses should also be very strongly related to other important aspects such as the social, environmental and economic, and whose development is not solved in a laboratory.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Lepra
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Invest Clin
Año:
2009
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Venezuela