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The authors summarize their own previous work on the identification of a su
bset of patients characterized by psychiatric disorders, recurrency of muco
sal infections and impaired natural immunity. The diagnostic approach to th
ese patients based on the dose collaboration between infectivologists. immu
nologists and psychiatrists is described with the aim to find out combined
treatments for the amelioration of clinical manifestations.