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Adaptive Immunity
Adaptive Immunity
Important in the
mucosa
Genital vs Gastrointestinal Tract Immunity
• Similarities
• immunologically reactive, producing antimicrobial peptides, cytokines, and
chemokines and can present antigen
• Commensal bacteria
• lymphoid aggregates
Genital vs Gastrointestinal Tract Immunity
• Differences
• greater density of organized lympho-epithelial tissue in the gut
• ease of inducing local immunoglobulin
Specific Diseases
• HIV
• Genital Herpes
• Human Papilomavirus
• Chlamydia trachomatis
HIV