A disease producing organism is a pathogen. An invasion of the
body by a pathogen is an infection. Although an infection is a
generalized name for the body's response to any invasion by any
pathogen.
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Lymphadenitis may be either generalized, involving a number of
lymph nodes; or limited to a few nodes in the area of a localized
infection.
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one that enters the bloodstream and causes general systemic
symptoms such as fever, chills, low blood pressure, or mental
confusion.
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a fever is triggered by your immune system when an infection is
detected. You can have many many types of infections without an
immune response, because it may not be detected by the body yet,
just effected