title: Recurrent chronic pyoderma with cellular immunodeficiency. Successful therapy by levamisole.
abstract: In a 21-year-old male patient afflicted with widespread recurrent pyoderma resistent to antimicrobial therapy since 3 years, a deficient state of cellular immunity including dysfunctions of both microphages and T lymphocytes was disclosed. After 6 weeks of systemic treatment with levamisole all lesions cleared completely, whereas appropriate long-term antibiotic therapy previously administered had failed to succeed. The immunological parameters, as far as being reexamined, also returned to normal levels during levamisole therapy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000473:pathology*; D007978:Levamisole / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male; D011711:Pyoderma / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000276:immunology; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D007978:Levamisole