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Research and Reviews : A Journal of Immunology

Infant’s Immunity w.s.r. to Compliment System: A General Review

  1. Gyanendra kumar Gupta
  2. Gagan Devi

Abstract

Infant’s mortality and morbidity rate in developing countries are at higher incidence due to infections. Various factors are responsible for infections, such as low socio-economic status, poor hospital facilities and malnutrition etc. The low level of compliment components and serum immunoglobulin in infants has been claimed to be the reason of defective opsonic activity in infants as well as defective generation of chemotaxis activity. Thus immune system during neonatal as well as infancy period has significant role to play in terms of mortality and morbidity status.

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