Sentence examples for impairment of the immune function from inspiring English sources
The impairment of the immune function leads to an increased susceptibility of the host to pathogens such as influenza, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, coxsackie virus, Helicobacter pylori and encephalomyocarditis virus [ 9].
Furthermore, opportunistic infections (i.e. Kaposi's sarcoma, Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia and toxoplasmosis) were diagnosed in three of our patients, reflecting the impairment of their immune function.
The immune function would probably be quite low.
28 Lombardo et al 31 also found that the progressive and severity-related decrease in peripheral blood T lymphocyte suggested a progressive impairment of protective immune function in LC.
In conclusion, the impairment of immune function caused by calving was more severe in cows in ≥3rd parity than in younger cows.
In addition, following the initial hyperinflammatory response, immune cell apoptosis occurs, taking part in the secondary impairment of immune function.
The mechanisms involved in the tobacco-cervical cancer link are not well understood, but some of them (e.g. high concentration of nicotine, cotinine and tobacco-specific nitrosamines in cervical mucus, impairment of immune function, accumulation of free radicals, etc, Szarewsky and Cuzick, 1998) may not require tobacco burning.
However, in some cases impairment of immune function can result in the development of active tuberculosis leading to disease progression [ 3, 17- 20].
The most consistent findings of recent investigations indicate impairment of cell-mediated immune function with age.
It has been suggested that impairment of immune function plays a contributing role in the increasing incidence of infectious diseases in marine mammals.
