RUDN Journal of Medicine (Mar 2012)
Natural nonspecific resistance in patients with primary syphilis
Abstract
Role of the immune system in patients with primary syphilis continues to be relevant according to high incidence of disease in Russia and poorly studied this question. Comprehensive study of all indicators of phagocytosis in the immune status in case of primary syphilis in available scientific literature was not found. Thereby, the study of immune reactivity of the macroorganism with different variants of syphilis is an important problem which solution may contribute to the development of prognostic criteria of this disease.