Opportunistic infection
Dr Daniel J Bell ◉ et al.
Opportunistic infections (OI) are caused by micro-organisms (sometimes called opportunists) that under normal circumstances do not cause infections, but in certain clinical contexts, most commonly immunosuppression, may become pathogenic 1.
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epidemiology
- attack rate
- basic reproductive number (R0)
- case fatality rate
- effective reproductive number (R)
- endemic
- epidemic
- host
- incubation period
- mortality rate
- opportunistic infection
- outbreak
- pandemic
- surveillance
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- genetics
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