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The American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 1988
Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Masachika Senba
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Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Masachika Senba
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Opportunistic Infections: An Overview
2001Opportunistic infections occur in patients who have local or systemic factors favoring infection and are caused by non-pathogenic microorganisms, which form part of the normal flora of man or of the environment.
Ferran Sanchez, Guillem Prats
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1984
Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of opportunistic infections. The prolonged survival of patients with impaired immunity has now become commonplace. This is largely the result of the widespread use of cytotoxic drugs and corticosteroids to treat malignant disease and to suppress immunity in connective tissue disorders and after organ
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Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of opportunistic infections. The prolonged survival of patients with impaired immunity has now become commonplace. This is largely the result of the widespread use of cytotoxic drugs and corticosteroids to treat malignant disease and to suppress immunity in connective tissue disorders and after organ
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Opportunistic Viral Infections
2016Viral infections most often represent reactivation of latent or subclinical infection in immunocompromised host. Both viral and host factors determine the susceptibility to infection. The susceptibility and severity of viral infections increases in conditions with inherited or acquired immunodeficiency, immunosuppressive drug therapy, or transplant ...
Ramesh K. Gupta, Pallav Gupta
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1989
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses opportunistic infections. Many opportunistic infections are acquired in hospital. Opportunistic infections are a major cause of illness and death in oncology patients and are the leading cause of death in recipients of renal transplants.
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Publisher Summary This chapter discusses opportunistic infections. Many opportunistic infections are acquired in hospital. Opportunistic infections are a major cause of illness and death in oncology patients and are the leading cause of death in recipients of renal transplants.
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Treatment of opportunistic infections
AIDS, 1990John Mills, Judith Feinberg
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Opportunistic Infections in HIV Infection
2019An infection is defined as opportunistic when it affects those with severe immunosuppression, i.e. takes a n opportunity to cause disease in a host with a weakened immune system. In people living with HIV it mainly affects those with a CD4 count < 200 although it is not impossible in those with CD4 count > 200.
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AIDS NOT AN OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION
The Lancet, 1983Philippe Le Bras +3 more
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