Depression of Cell-mediated Immunity in Cholera

Overview

Journal Infect Immun

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 1979 Jan 1

PMID 422232

Citations 1

Authors

D L PALMER

S N Zaman

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Abstract

Cholera toxin may depress cell-mediated immunity by stimulation of adenyl cyclase and production of cyclic AMP in cellular systems or when given parenterally to experimental animals. Whether or not similar effects might be found during clinical infection with Vibrio cholerae was the subject of this study. Delayed hypersensitivity reactions to skin test antigens were found to be markedly depressed in Bengali patients with cholera 24 h after fluid repletion. Skin test response rates were lower in children and in adults with the disease than in both normal adults and children or in adults with an equivalent degree of malnutrition. Patients with equal degrees of dehydration due to noncholera diarrhea were significantly less immunosuppressed. Concurrent depression of other manifestations of cell-mediated immunity was not found.

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