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What fungal disease can cause meningitis to develop in AIDS patients?
Cryptococcus is a fungal disease that can cause meningitis in people with AIDS and other immunocompromised people. It is an opportunistic infection.
What infection is a pathogen that normally does not cause disease unless the host is weakened by another condition?
Opportunistic infection
What term describes a non pathogenic organism that becomes pathogenic?
A non pathogenic organism cause infection in host when the host's immune system is down.It is called as opportunistic pathogen.That infection is known as opportunistic infection.Example for opportunistic pathogen:Candida albicans, Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, cytomegalovirus (CMV) ---- Pathogen to HIV positive persons.
If any special test for Klebsiella pneumoniae?
Kleb pneumo is a bacteria. It is opportunistic and may be the cause of a bacterial infection. A bacterial culture would be sufficient to detect it and depending where it is, it may or may not be significant.
What can untreated body lice lead to?
If the infestation is not treated, the patient may develop complications that include headache, fever, and bacterial infection with scarring.
Infection that attacks an individual already weakened by disease?
Opportunistic Infection. Pg. 90 in Memmler's The Human Body in Health and Disease 12th Edition.
Is caused by a pathogen that does not normally produce an illness in healthy humans?
opportunistic infection
What disease does HIV bring?
HIV infection will bring in the dreaded syndrome called as AIDS. It may take up to eight years to develop the AIDS. If you are on proper therapy, the duration to develop the AIDS is prolonged to many years. In case of AIDS, you immunity is suppressed. You get infections by opportunistic infections.
Any treatments to opportunistic infection?
There are many different opportunistic infections and many different ways to treat them.
What fungal disease can cause meningitis to develop in AIDS patients?
Cryptococcus is a fungal disease that can cause meningitis in people with AIDS and other immunocompromised people. It is an opportunistic infection.
A patient showing kaposi's sarcoma is also likely to be infected with?
Kapose's Sarcoma (KS) is an opportunistic disease that occurs in people with weakened immune systems. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) weakens the immune system severely enough for patients to develop KS. HIV is not the only cause of weakened immune systems. Other conditions, such as Lupus, may also cause an individual to develop an opportunistic infection.
What infection is bad for a person with AIDS but does not harm a healthy one?
These infections are called "opportunistic infections." They are called opportunistic because a weakened immune system is necessary for them to cause serious infection.
What infection is a pathogen that normally does not cause disease unless the host is weakened by another condition?
Opportunistic infection
An infection is caused by a pathogen that normally does not cause disease unless the host is weakened by another condition?
Opportunistic Infection
Which phase of HIV infection is characterized by opportunistic infections?
Phase III
Why hospital patient are at increased risk for opportunistic infection?
The ones who might already have an infection or have a low immune level.
What is an opportunistic infection?
An opportunistic infection (OI) is an infection that occurs only when the host's defense systems (ie, the immune system) are weakened. The common characteristic of all agents that cause opportunistic infections is that they rarely affect individuals with healthy immune systems. For example, the disease AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a classic cause of immune system depression and is associated with many opportunistic infections, including toxoplasmosis, pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), and others.
