Opportunistic infection

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• Causes

  • Immunosuppression

• Parents

  • Infectious disease
  • Inflammatory disease

• Children

  • Candida albicans
  • Herpes simplex in immunocompromised
  • Immunosuppressed CMV infection
  • AIDS with mycobacterium avium complex
  • Pneumocystis pneumonia
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Cyclospora
  • Necrotising fasciitis
  • Isospora belli infection
  • Opportunistic gut infection

• Description

  • "infection by an rganism that normally does not cause disease but does so when lowered resistance to infection is caused by the impairment of the body's immune system."