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Pulmonary mycotic infections; allergic and immunologic factors.

Abstract
The mechanisms of immunity and allergy, at play in every infectious disease, must be comprehended before the pathogenesis of an infection can be appreciated.Immunity, allergy and serology are concerned with specific antigen-antibody reactions. In immunity the principal concern is with the final disposition of antigen (agglutination, lysis, and phagocytosis). In allergy attention is focused upon tissue damage resulting from antigen-antibody union. In serology interest is devoted to the presence of antibody as evaluated by certain visible in vitro reactions-precipitin, agglutination, opsonization and complement fixation tests. There are two types of allergic reaction-the immediate or anaphylactic type and the delayed type or the allergic disease of infection. Neither kind takes part in the mechanism of immunity. At this time the allergic antibody and the immune antibody must be considered as two different and distinct antibodies. Skin and serologic tests are important diagnostic aids in certain pulmonary mycotic infections-for example, coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis, histoplasmosis and moniliasis. Clinical expressions of allergy may appear in coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis and moniliasis. Pulmonary mycoses are divided into three groups, that is, the endogenous mycoses (actinomycosis, moniliasis, geotrichosis), the endogenous-exogenous mycoses (cryptococcosis, aspergillosis, mucormycosis) and the exogenous mycoses (nocardiosis, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, North American blastomycosis). The diagnosis and treatment of the important mycotic infections that invade lung tissue are discussed.
AuthorsE L KEENEY
JournalCalifornia medicine (Calif Med) Vol. 81 Issue 6 Pg. 367-78 (Dec 1954) ISSN: 0008-1264 [Print] United States
PMID13209369 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Immunologic Factors
Topics
  • Actinomycosis
  • Aspergillosis
  • Blastomycosis
  • Coccidioidomycosis
  • Cryptococcosis
  • Geotrichosis
  • Histoplasmosis
  • Humans
  • Immunologic Factors
  • Lung Diseases
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal
  • Mucormycosis
  • Mycoses
  • Nocardia Infections
  • Sporotrichosis

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