Normal and Poor Immune System
The immune system comprises from immune cells, like white blood cells, antibodies and other substances that fight against microbes and thus defend us against infections.
We may suspect that our immune system is low (poor, weak, deficient) when we suffer from frequent infections (like having influenza several times a year), when infections heal slowly (like common cold lasting a month), when they affect unusual sites (like Candida albicans yeast appearing in the mouth) or infections that usually do not affect people with normal immunity (like Pneumocystis carinii fungus is harmless for healthy people but can cause pneumonia in AIDS patients).
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