C. fetus should be considered a possible cause of bacterial meningitis, especially
in immunocompromised patients with accompanying gastrointestinal symptoms.
Multi-resistant infectious agents and emerging new fungal infections
in immunocompromised patients are among the other new challenges.
Machine learning for tackling microbiota data and infection complications
in immunocompromised patients with cancer — J. Luis Espinoza — Journal of Internal Medicine
It can cause serious complications including blindness, encephalitis, severe diarrhea, ear infections and pneumonia, particularly in children with nutritional problems and
in immunocompromised patients.
Contaminated water poses an increased risk for infection
in immunocompromised patients.
E. rostratum, in addition to causing soft - tissue infections, has also rarely provoked sinus or eye infections, primarily
in immunocompromised patients.
Tamoxifen, a drug currently used to treat breast cancer, also kills a fungus that causes a deadly brain infection
in immunocompromised patients.
In healthy individuals HCMV establishes lifelong latency, but
in immunocompromised patients, viral reactivation can lead to severe clinical symptoms, such as disseminated viral infection, blindness and potentially cancer.
Many viral and fungal infections, especially recurrent cases, are seen
in immunocompromised patients (HIV, uncontrolled diabetes).
Glenn Roberts, a retired medical mycologist, says that in his 40 years of experience at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., he had seen only one case: a soft - tissue arm wound
in an immunocompromised patient.
Not exact matches
Patients who develop this specific fungal infection are overwhelmingly adults who are immunocompromised, Kumar explains, including those with diabetes, transplant recipients, patients with cancer and those who have abnormally low concentrations of immune cells called neutrophils in thei
Patients who develop this specific fungal infection are overwhelmingly adults who are
immunocompromised, Kumar explains, including those with diabetes, transplant recipients,
patients with cancer and those who have abnormally low concentrations of immune cells called neutrophils in thei
patients with cancer and those who have abnormally low concentrations of immune cells called neutrophils
in their blood.
«But the organisms that we detected as abundant
in these biofilms appear to have characteristics that could be of interest because they are related to some bacteria that are opportunistic pathogens that could pose a threat, especially to
immunocompromised hospital
patients»
Fungi cause bothersome diaper rashes, oral thrush, athlete's foot, and vaginal yeast infections, but they are also responsible for life - threatening infections
in the
immunocompromised, including
patients receiving transplants, people with HIV / AIDS, cancer
patients, and the elderly.
After infection, some healthy people experience a month or more of flu - like symptoms, but the disease can cause seizures and potentially fatal encephalitis
in the
immunocompromised, including
patients receiving transplants, those with HIV / AIDS, cancer
patients, the elderly, and young children.
In immunocompromised individuals (chemotherapy
patients, for example) or poorly controlled diabetics, upper airway Aspergillus infections can invade the mucosa and underlying tissue and become lethal, so it is particularly critical to understand its interactions with the airway epithelium.
In traditional medicine, Candida is only treated when women have «vaginal yeast infections» or when
immunocompromised HIV
patients have an overgrowth of it.
On the one hand, you've got the conventional medicine perspective, which holds that candida only causes problems
in severely
immunocompromised people — like
patients with HIV / AIDS.
A Canine Bone Marrow Transplant Unit with a reverse isolation air filtration system to protect
immunocompromised and vulnerable
patients — the Terry Center is the only academic clinical facility
in the country offering canine bone marrow transplants.
Recent advances
in diagnostic techniques have facilitated documentation of chronic bloodstream infections with Bartonella spp.
in healthy and sick animals, and
in immunocompetent and
immunocompromised human
patients with cardiovascular, neurologic, and rheumatologic symptoms.