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Opportunistic infection

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Opportunistic Organism Summary
821 words, approx. 3 pages
Opportunistic organisms commonly refer to animals and plants that tolerate variable environmental conditions and food sources. Some opportunistic species can thrive on almost any available nutrient source: omnivorous rats, bears, and raccoons are all...
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Opportunistic Infections Summary
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Opportunistic infections are so named because they occur in people whose immune systems are not working properly; they are "opportunistic" insofar as the infectious agents take advantage of their hosts' compromised immune systems and invade to cause...
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Opportunistic : Environmental Health Terms
106 words, approx. 1 pages
Refers to that which occurs or happens as a result of conditions being favourable at the time. An opportunistic infection is one that occurs due to a reduced capacity in the immune system to resist infection. An organism that causes an opportunistic...
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Opportunistic infection Information
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Opportunistic infections are infections caused by pathogens that usually do not cause disease in a healthy immune system. A compromised immune system, however, presents an "opportunity" for the pathogen to...


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News and Journals
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FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
Pulmonary opportunistic infections.(Clinical)
06/22/2003: 1,200 words, approx. 4 pages
Being one of the fortunate people who have received an organ transplant (kidney), recently, I contemplated this article from my hospital bed as I recovered. It more than crossed my mind that opportunistic infection was a real possibility with this surgery due to...
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FDA Consumer
Study to compare drugs for opportunistic infection.
12/01/1990: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
Study to Compare Drugs For Opportunistic Infection The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will sponsor a three-year, community-based study to compare the effectiveness of two widely available drugs in preventing toxoplasmic encephalitis in people with AIDS. The drugs--clindamycin, an...
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AP News
Atty: Woman wasn't told donor was a risk
11/17/2007: 746 words, approx. 3 pages
A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor "because of his lifestyle," her attorney said.Attorney Thomas Demetrio filed...
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AP Features
Attorney: Woman who got HIV, hepatitis from transplant wasn't told that organ donor was a risk
11/17/2007: 746 words, approx. 3 pages
A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor "because of his lifestyle," her attorney said.Attorney Thomas Demetrio filed...
 


 

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