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Immunity to Fungal Infections

1983; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-1-4684-4481-0_36

2214-8019

Judith E. Domer, Emily W. Carrow,

Fungal Infections and Studies

Medically-important fungi potentially capable of initiating life-threatening disease can be categorized roughly into two groups, viz., primary pathogens and opportunists. The primary pathogens are those fungi which regularly cause disease in individuals with no known underlying clinical conditions, while the opportunists seldom create problems for the healthy person, but instead attack the patient whose normal defenses are compromised by iatrogenic factors or disease.