Host (medicine)

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Wirt (English: host for "host") is used in medicine in three contexts:

1. The graft versus host reaction - translated: reaction of the transplant against the host - describes a process in transplant medicine in which the recipient of the transplant is harmed by the transferred organ.
2. The host versus graft reaction - translated: reaction of the host against the transplant - is the rejection reaction in the recipient body against the donor organ, which loses its function acutely or slowly.
3. for humans (or another living being) as a target for pathogens ; see host (biology) .