• Bergeron Y, Bergeron MG, Alwatari Y, Shah RD. Pulmonary Infections in the Immunocompromised Host. (sts.org)
  • Infections in the immunocompromised host-pathogenesis prevention and therapy : proceedings of the First International Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host held in Veldhoven, The Netherlands, 1-5 June 1980 / editors, Jan Verhoef, Phillip K. Peterson, Paul G. Quie. (who.int)
  • In severely immunocompromised individuals, the typical presentation of TB becomes less frequent. (medscape.com)
  • Schoenfeld D, Lee D, Arrington JA, Greene J, Klinkova O. Bacillus Cereus bacteremia complicated by brain abscess in a severely immunocompromised patient: Addressing importance of early recognition and challenges in diagnosis. (moffitt.org)
  • The accumulation of these mutations could be the consequence of intrahost viral evolution due to prolonged infection in immunocompromised hosts. (nygenome.org)
  • Infection in Immunocompromised Hosts: Epidemiologic Investigation of 5 Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia. (bvsalud.org)
  • Pneumonia in the immunocompromised host is a complex infection and inflammation of the lower respiratory tract, complicated by widespread multi-drug antibiotic resistance, and aided by medical advances such as improvements in diagnostic measures and immunosuppressive agents. (medscape.com)
  • Though overall patient survival has increased, pneumonia is both the most common invasive infection in immunocompromised patients and continues to carry a high mortality and morbidity rate. (medscape.com)
  • Pneumonia in immunocompromised is often complicated by superinfection, drug toxicity, empyema , sepsis, pneumothorax , and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) . (medscape.com)
  • There are four major groups of pathogens responsible for pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. (medscape.com)
  • PIV pneumonia: Treatment is mainly supportive, but aerosolized and oral ribavirin have been associated with reduction in PIV shedding and clinical improvement in immunocompromised patients. (medscape.com)
  • Pneumonia in an immunocompromised host is difficult to diagnose. (sts.org)
  • This type of disease is called "pneumonia in an immunocompromised host. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is an opportunistic infection commonly affecting immunocompromised people. (nih.gov)
  • It is hoped that these studies will lead to a better understanding of this organism and host-parasite interactions, which in turn will result in better means of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of P. carinii pneumonia. (rochester.edu)
  • Our attending physicians are nationally recognized in pediatric infectious diseases and translational and clinical research, including host-pathogen defense, pharmacokinetics, vaccine and therapeutic clinical trials, infectious diseases epidemiology, antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship, quality improvement, and outcomes research. (pids.org)
  • The risk of deferring vaccination, and thus not mitigating the increased risk for shingles and related complications in immunocompromised patients, should be weighed against a possible diminished response to RZV if given during periods of more intense immunosuppression. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Dora Ho specializes in infection complications in immunocompromised patients, such as those with bone marrow transplant, solid organ transplant, cancers and other forms of immunodeficiency. (stanford.edu)
  • To gain insight into how the viral spike (S) protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) might evolve in response to common antibody responses, we studied mutations occurring during virus evolution in a persistently infected immunocompromised individual. (anl.gov)
  • Although host immune responses play a critical role in reducing duration of viral shedding and viral load in norovirus-infected individuals, why some immunocompromised patients spontaneously recover while others develop a chronic and protracted course of illness remains unclear. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Research studies on viral agents will focus on vector/reservoir transmission, viral ecology, clinical virology, pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and host immune response to these viral pathogens. (bworldonline.com)
  • Herpesviruses however, generate a complicated balance with the host immune system through their latency cycle moving between immune control and viral reactivation. (frontiersin.org)
  • During her fellowship, she joined the Cell Enhancement and Technologies for Immunotherapy Program (CETI) at Children's National Hospital (CNH) under the mentorship of Dr. Catherine Bollard and Dr. Michael Keller with an emphasis on adoptive T cell therapy for viral infections in immunocompromised hosts including SARS-CoV-2 and chronic Norovirus. (nih.gov)
  • His research interests include understanding the interplay of infections and the immune response in immunocompromised patients, and the subsequent effects on morbidity and mortality. (nih.gov)
  • are associated with a high morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hosts [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Immunocompromised patients are at an increased risk for developing serious illness from COVID-19, and may require additional doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. (primeinc.org)
  • Infrequently, lung biopsy is required to establish a diagnosis in very ill patients, who often are immunocompromised. (medscape.com)
  • The patient's compromised immune status, the antirejection regiment, convalescent plasma treatment, and the development of neutralizing antibodies may have resulted in unique selective pressures on the intrahost genomic evolution, and this observation supports the hypotheses that VOCs can independently arise and that immunocompromised patients on convalescent plasma therapy are potential breeding grounds for immune escape mutants. (nygenome.org)
  • Pneumocystis carinii is a life-threatening cause of pneumonitis among patients who are immunocompromised because of malignancies, AIDS, or congenital immunodeficiency disorders. (rochester.edu)
  • In what settings should treatment with monoclonal antibody therapies be considered for immunocompromised or other hematology patients? (hematology.org)
  • Chong, PP & Atmar, RL 2019, ' Norovirus in health care and implications for the immunocompromised host ', Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases , vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 348-355. (elsevierpure.com)
  • We report molecular evidence of Tula hantavirus as an etiologic agent of pulmonary-renal syndrome in an immunocompromised patient. (cdc.gov)
  • For vaccination of persons with altered immunocompetence, various references, including ACIP's general best practices (4), Chapter 5 of the CDC Yellow Book (5), and the Infectious Diseases Society of America's 2013 IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline for Vaccination of the Immunocompromised Host (6), can be consulted for additional information about the degree of immune suppression associated with different medical conditions and treatments. (cdc.gov)
  • Pathogenesis and clinical radiographic manifestations are different in normal and immunocompromised hosts. (sts.org)
  • Diagnostic Microbiology of the Immunocompromised Host , 2nd ed. 2016. (asm.org)
  • The fellowship will be hosted by a partnership between the South Yorkshire Regional Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine (SYRDITM), the Department of Microbiology of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Northern General Hospital sites) and the Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease (IICD), University of Sheffield Medical School. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • With the growing population of immunocompromised hosts who are in frequent contact with healthcare facilities, norovirus is not only a threat to hospitals and nursing homes but also to these individuals. (elsevierpure.com)
  • This review summarizes the impact of norovirus infection on healthcare facilities and immunocompromised hosts.Recent findingsThe natural history of norovirus infection in immunocompromised individuals remains poorly understood. (elsevierpure.com)
  • This delicate equilibrium can be altered in proportions of healthy individuals promoting virus reactivation and, more often, in immunocompromised subjects. (frontiersin.org)
  • A slow virus, BK establishes latent infections in B-lymphocytes and attacks an immunosuppressed host upon reactivation. (stanford.edu)
  • Trainees will develop experience with a wide variety of both general and immunocompromised infectious diseases pathology and undertake a scholarly project resulting in conference presentations and a publishable manuscript. (pids.org)
  • However, the constant stimulus provided by virus-host interplay has also favored NK-cell adaptation to Herpesviruses. (frontiersin.org)
  • In healthy individuals, the disease is usually self-limiting, but in individuals who are immunocompromised, extensive local destruction, fungemia, visceral and cerebral invasion, and death are substantial risks. (medscape.com)
  • The host is attacked by respiratory transmission. (stanford.edu)
  • Power level is high in immunocompromised hosts. (stanford.edu)
  • Therapy of steroid-resistant graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) with antibodies to T cells or cytokines is of limited value because GVHD is mediated by a pleomorphic group of effective cells and cytokines. (nih.gov)
  • SYRDITM provides specialised services for HIV, Hepatitis, TB, community-acquired infection, travel medicine and infections in immunocompromised hosts. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • Most of these mycoses are diagnosed on the basis of a history of foreign travel or an immunocompromised state. (medscape.com)
  • The virus attacks the central nervous systems of the host. (stanford.edu)
  • The virus attacks the B-lymphocytes of the host. (stanford.edu)
  • The virus uses a violent method of attack by employing a rabid animal to bite the host. (stanford.edu)
  • ActualizaciĆ³n sobre el virus la influenza aviar A (H5N1) en los seres humanos. (cdc.gov)