title: An immunologist's view of viral disease.
abstract: Immunologists see viral infection as a struggle between host defences and viral invasion. The outcome of such invasion may be sub-clinical or self limiting clinical infection or a less favourable outcome with chronicity, "slow virus" disease, autoimmunity or malignancy. A limited number of immune manipulations are possible in viral disease--immunization, immune enhancement with transfer factor or levamisole. An understanding of immune defences is vital at a time when antiviral chemotherapy is still so poorly developed.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D007114:Immunization; D007978:Levamisole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D014165:Transfer Factor / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D014165:Transfer Factor; D007978:Levamisole