RT Book, Section
A1 Levinson, Warren
A1 Chin-Hong, Peter
A1 Joyce, Elizabeth A.
A1 Nussbaum, Jesse
A1 Schwartz, Brian
SR Print(0)
ID 1190861597
T1 Host Defenses
T2 Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264267088
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190861597
RD 2024/04/19
AB Host  defenses  against  viruses  fall  into  two  major  categories:  (1)  nonspecific,  of  which  the  most  important  are  interferons  and  natural  killer  (NK)  cells  and  (2)  specific,  including  both  antibody  and  cell-mediated  immunity.  Interferons  are  an  early,  first-line  defense,  whereas  humoral  immunity  and  cell-mediated  immunity  are  effective  only  later  because  it  takes  several  days  to  induce  the  humoral  and  cell-mediated  arms  of  the  immune  response.