The body’s natural protection mechanism against infection from pathogen is not as effective as it can be, especially for individuals that have compromised immune response. The body’s immune response system has an essential resistance and adaptive immunity as its first line of defense. When the front-line defense (innate) immunity fails to protect the body against microbial pathogens the second line of defense (adaptive) which is more specific is activated (H. ,2012, September 11). The innate immunity contains different cell forms that generates a barrier stopping the pathogen from entering the body. If the pathogen successfully enters the body it then allows phagocytic cells to activate within the site of the infection destroying the pathogen.
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The role changes within an immunocompromised patient. Immunocompromised patients don’t have the ability to respond normally to infectious pathogens due to the weaken or compromise ability of the immune system to respond to infection (Schreier, Steele, Chatterjee, & Domachowske, 2015). The inability for the immune to provide an appropriate response to the reaction from a pathogenic infection could be genetic meaning from birth or this could be a developed condition from issues such as diabetes, malnutrition, HIV, trauma, or other medical conditions. Patients with Immunocompromised will not have the ability for provide an immune response able to fight off bacterial, fungal, and or viral infections as though an individual with a healthy immune response is cable of fighting off the different infections. Lymphocytes are created within thymus gland and then matured into T lymphocytes or T cells resulting in develop immunocompromised problems. An individual with a compromised immune system does not have capability which as to which an individual with a natural healthy immune response. By being comprisable its then allows the body to be susceptible to other infections such as pneumonia and …show more content…
(2012, September 11). Viral Infection: An Evolving Insight into the Signal Transduction Pathways Responsible for the Innate Immune Response. Retrieved April 16, 2017, from https://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/2012/131457/
Microscope, T. T. (n.d.). -27 The immune system is not perfect - Allergies. Retrieved April 20, 2017, from http://www.microbiologytext.com/5th_ed/book/displayarticle/aid/402
Schreier, R., Steele, R. W., Chatterjee, A., & Domachowske, J. (2015, April 22). Infections in the Immunocompromised Host. Retrieved from Medscape:
The role changes within an immunocompromised patient. Immunocompromised patients don’t have the ability to respond normally to infectious pathogens due to the weaken or compromise ability of the immune system to respond to infection (Schreier, Steele, Chatterjee, & Domachowske, 2015). The inability for the immune to provide an appropriate response to the reaction from a pathogenic infection could be genetic meaning from birth or this could be a developed condition from issues such as diabetes, malnutrition, HIV, trauma, or other medical conditions. Patients with Immunocompromised will not have the ability for provide an immune response able to fight off bacterial, fungal, and or viral infections as though an individual with a healthy immune response is cable of fighting off the different infections. Lymphocytes are created within thymus gland and then matured into T lymphocytes or T cells resulting in develop immunocompromised problems. An individual with a compromised immune system does not have capability which as to which an individual with a natural healthy immune response. By being comprisable its then allows the body to be susceptible to other infections such as pneumonia and …show more content…
(2012, September 11). Viral Infection: An Evolving Insight into the Signal Transduction Pathways Responsible for the Innate Immune Response. Retrieved April 16, 2017, from https://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/2012/131457/
Microscope, T. T. (n.d.). -27 The immune system is not perfect - Allergies. Retrieved April 20, 2017, from http://www.microbiologytext.com/5th_ed/book/displayarticle/aid/402
Schreier, R., Steele, R. W., Chatterjee, A., & Domachowske, J. (2015, April 22). Infections in the Immunocompromised Host. Retrieved from Medscape: