MSI Immunodeficiency diseases

Question 1

How many forms of Primary Immunodeficiency disorders have been discovered to date?

Answer 1

> 300

Question 2

In healthy infants there is normally a period of relative antibody deficiency around ___ months known as ‘transient hypogammaglobulinemia of infancy; this is a physiological state but can be correlated with increased infections

Answer 2

6

Question 3

Infants with antibody deficiency usually present after _____ months; up until this time they are protected by maternal IgG antibody

Answer 3

3-6

Question 4

A state in which the immune system’s ability to fight infectious disease and cancers is compromised or completely absent

Answer 4

immunodeficiency

Question 5

People with immunodeficiency are more susceptible to infections that are ___________, unusual, severe, protracted, not as responsive to standard therapy, and frequent

Answer 5

opportunistic

Question 6

Key features of immunodeficiency are that there are
components of the immune response system are absent or non functional; Inability to fight infectious diseases and __________.

Answer 6

cancers

Question 7

** _________ deficiencies in general are more susceptible to bacterial infections, such as Neisseria meningitidis

Answer 7

Complement

Question 8

Antibody-deficiency (or humoral immunodeficiency) creates more susceptibility to ___________ bacterial infections such as Streptococcus pneumonia

Answer 8

encapsulated

Question 9

In cellular immunodeficiency patients are more susceptible to _______, fungal, and mycobacterial infections (eg Herpes Simplex virus)

Answer 9

viral