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Infections > Opportunistic Infections

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Opportunistic Infections  

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Note

  • "an infect caused by an organism which becomes pathogenic under certain conditions, e.g., during immunosuppression"; coord IM with specific name of opportunistic infect (IM) + specific infect to which it is opportunistic (IM), using /compl for all 3

Scope note

  • An infection caused by an organism which becomes pathogenic under certain conditions, e.g., during immunosuppression.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009894

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