loading...| Preferred Name |
Opportunistic Infection |
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| Synonyms |
Opportunistic Infection opportunistic infection OI |
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| Definitions |
Infection caused by an organism that is capable of causing disease in immunocompromised patients only (e.g. HIV-positive or transplanted patients).--2004 |
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| ID |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C3289 |
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| ALT_DEFINITION |
An infection that occurs in an immunocompromised host, but that does not usually cause an infection with similar frequency or severity in a normal (immunocompetent) host. An infection caused by an organism that does not normally cause disease. Opportunistic infections occur in people with weakened immune systems. |
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| code |
C3289 |
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| Concept_In_Subset | ||
| Contributing_Source |
NICHD |
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| DEFINITION |
Infection caused by an organism that is capable of causing disease in immunocompromised patients only (e.g. HIV-positive or transplanted patients).--2004 |
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| FULL_SYN |
Opportunistic Infection opportunistic infection OI |
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| label |
Opportunistic Infection |
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| Legacy Concept Name |
Opportunistic_Infections |
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| Preferred_Name |
Opportunistic Infection |
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| prefixIRI |
Thesaurus:C3289 |
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| Semantic_Type |
Disease or Syndrome |
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| UMLS_CUI |
C0029118 |
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| subClassOf |