These observations have led to the hypothesis that bee declines are resulting from immune suppression.

A. I would not be giving patients immune suppression for hand transplants.

Infection has a profound effect on the immune system including immune suppression.

So far, investigators suspect certain bacteria, along with environmental and contaminant factors that may cause immune suppression.

Such immune suppression, veterinarians said today, can open the way for other infections.

Other researchers have shown, in the presence of pesticides, immune suppression is common, which makes amphibians more susceptible to disease.

Instead, the increased risk may result from the immune suppression that allows the reactivation of the virus.

But immune suppression leaves a person vulnerable to infections.

Some doctors have been concerned that such immune suppression could leave patients vulnerable to infections.

On the other hand, immune suppression with ciclosporin has shown no effect for this purpose.