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Secondary Infection

An infection caused by an opportunistic pathogen. These pathogens attack organisms who's immune system is depleted due to another recent infection. The common cold is an example of a secondary infection in an AIDS carrier.


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Antibiotic effect

... has long been known that if you treat a patient with ampicillin for an infection, it is possible that some persister cells will start multiplying after the treatment and trigger a secondary infection. Cheers, Andrei

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by MrMistery
Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:35 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Antibiotic effect
Replies: 5
Views: 164

Streptococcus pyogens

... swabs or from abscesses it makes. Now and then it can cause severe infections such as necrotizing fascitis, and secondary reactions after the primary infection can be difficult as well (for example rheumatic ...

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by biohazard
Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:55 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Streptococcus pyogens
Replies: 2
Views: 412

Re:

... can be done in several peripheral tissues including at the site of infection? Yes, the final stages of lymphocyte differentiation take place in the peripheral tissues. Often this peripheral tissue is a secondary lymphoid tissue, such as a lymph node, but also circulating naive ...

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by biohazard
Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:35 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: T cell differentiation
Replies: 12
Views: 2252

There is no HIV?? But there is AIDS??

... statistics: you say that HAART causes more deaths than opportunistic infections. Well, at the moment this could even be the case among patients on HAART, because they do not develop secondary (opportunistic) infections - that is the ultimate goal of the treatment ...

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by biohazard
Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:53 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: There is no HIV?? But there is AIDS??
Replies: 10
Views: 1968

The Fiber Disease

... reported from the southeastern United States[4]. Studies have linked infection to swimming or bathing in freshwater ponds, lakes, or rivers[2,5]. ... manually aligned on the basis of the conserved primary sequence and secondary structure. The phylogenetic relationship of R. seeberi to other ...

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by al
Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:39 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
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