Diseases caused by delayed type hypersensitivity

DISEASES CAUSED BY DELAYED TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY

Allergic Contact Dermatitis
  • Type IV hypersensitivity reaction results due to exposure of skin to some chemicals, oils of poison ivy plant, insecticides etc.

Infection Allergy

  • Associated with some of the fungal, viral and chronic bacterial diseases.

Jones-Mote Hypersensitivity

  • A type of reactivity very similar to delayed type hypersensitivity observed in man and animals.
  • It is characterized by inflammation and basophils infiltration immediately under the epidermis followed by injection with an antigen in the skin.
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