Immunodeficiency (or immune deficiency) is a state in which the immune system's ability to fight infectious disease is compromised or entirely absent. Immunodeficiency may also decrease cancer immunosurveillance. Most cases of immunodeficiency are acquired ("secondary") but some people are born with defects in their immune system, or primary immunodeficiency. Transplant patients take medications to suppress their immune system as an anti-rejectio...
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Parent Disease:
Diseases with this Risk Factor:
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma ,
- Cervical cancer ,
- Candidiasis ,
- Molluscum contagiosum ,
- Jock itch ,
- Kaposi's sarcoma ,
- Hepatitis B ,
- Influenza ,
- Cholera ,
- Typhoid fever
Parent Classification:
Also known as:
- Immune deficiency