Parasitic Infections in the Compromised Host (Infectious Disease and Therapy)
Publisher: CRC
Published: October 13, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780824779436
Subjects: Medical parasitology; Tropical medicine; Parasitology; Infectious Diseases; Infectious And Parasitic Diseases; Medical Immunology; Medical / Nursing; Parasitic diseases; Medical; Immunology; Medical / Immunology; Immunological deficiency syndr; Pathogenesis; Complications; Host-parasite relationships; Immunological deficiency syndromes
First sentence: Patients who lack normal resistance to infection because of a deficiency in any of their multifaceted host defense mechanisms are referred to as "compromised hosts."