Sentences with phrase «increased opportunistic infections»

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This exhaustion may lead to immunosuppression, which can also have fatal consequences due to increased susceptibility to secondary, opportunistic infections.

Over the past decade, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a substantial increase in incidence of opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens, with Pseudomonas alone accounting for 51,000 hospitalizations per year with more than 6,000 multi-drug resistant infections in 2011.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (September 29, 2005)- As medical procedures that compromise a person's immune system become more common, opportunistic infections that exploit these weaknesses are an increasing public health concern.

Unfortunately, treatments for these conditions can involve suppression of the immune system to the point that the patient is at increased risk for opportunistic infections and cancer.

The increased incidence of candidiasis, the increased resistance of Candida species to antifungal agents and the rise in lethality associated with infections by Candida spp has prompted renewed research on innovative ways to prevent and treat infections by these opportunistic yeasts.

This period is followed by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections.