Characteristics of the immune and cytokine status of patients with severe purulent-inflammatory diseases of the face and neck

increase in immuno-initiating cytokines. Among studied patients, there were two subgroups who had clinical and immunologic marks of immune deficiency — these were patients with a cellular deficiency of adaptive immune responses associated with low levels of IL-2, and patients with combined deficiency of adaptive and innate immunity that was associated with insufficient production of IL-1β. (Cytokines and Inflammation. 2012. Vol. 11. № 2. P. 113–118.)