Immunological aspects of infectious diseases
- Issue: Vol 65, No 3 (1984)
- Pages: 161-167
- Section: Letter from the editor
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/kazanmedj/article/view/89000
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/kazmj89000
- ID: 89000
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Abstract
The modern understanding of infectology is not limited to acute mass infections only. Currently, the importance of opportunistic bacteria is increasingly increasing; especially in the occurrence of nosocomial outbreaks of infections. They are often the cause of deaths in patients in surgical, hematology, intensive care and other departments, as well as in hemodialysis centers. It is enough to name such a currently common infection as staphylococcal sepsis, truly "staphylococcal plague", as it is now called, in order to unite the efforts of many clinicians to study this disease. According to the USA, nosocomial sepsis was observed in one year in 40,000 patients. Without developing this idea further, I would like to dwell on the importance of immunity in infectious pathology.