title: Clinical assessment of host defense.
abstract: Host defense mechanisms are a determinant of infection. Anergy in surgical patients is a signal of broadly based immune deficits, which include abnormalities in specific and local nonspecific antibacterial defenses and related life-threatening sepsis. Analysis of these abnormalities and other risk factors allows us to generate a long-predictive equation of individual probability of death.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tellado-Rodriguez
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Christou
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology; D007109:Immunity; D011336:Probability; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D012882:Skin Tests / Q000379:methods; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000276:immunology / Q000401:mortality