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IMMUNODEFICIENT [5 records]

Record 1 2025-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
  • Viral Diseases
  • Immunology
CONT

What is a vaccine-derived poliovirus? A vaccine-derived poliovirus(VDPV) is a strain related to the weakened live poliovirus contained in oral polio vaccine(OPV). If allowed to circulate in under-or unimmunized populations for long enough, or replicate in an immunodeficient individual, the weakened virus can revert to a form that causes illness and paralysis.

Key term(s)
  • vaccine-derived polio virus

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
  • Maladies virales
  • Immunologie
CONT

Si la souche de poliovirus présente dans le VPO [vaccin antipoliomyélitique oral] circule dans des populations à faible couverture vaccinale, ou se réplique chez un hôte immunosupprimé, elle peut subir des mutations et revenir à une forme causant une maladie paralytique qui ne se distingue pas de la polio sauvage. C'est ce qu'on appelle le poliovirus dérivé d'une souche vaccinale (PVDV).

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
  • Human Diseases - Various
CONT

Individuals may be immunocompromised as a result of a congenital condition, an illness or medications that suppress immune function. In general, immunocompromised persons are more susceptible to vaccine-preventable infections and may have severe infections.

Key term(s)
  • immune-compromised person
  • immune-suppressed person
  • immune-deficient person
  • immune-depressed person

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
  • Maladies humaines diverses
DEF

[Personne] dont le système immunitaire est affaibli.

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
  • Human Diseases - Various
CONT

A person who has an immunodeficiency of any kind is said to be immunocompromised.

Key term(s)
  • immune-compromised
  • immune-suppressed
  • immune-deficient
  • immune-depressed

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
  • Maladies humaines diverses
DEF

Se dit d'un sujet dont les défenses immunitaires sont amoindries [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inmunología
  • Enfermedades humanas varias
DEF

[Dícese del] organismo cuya capacidad para defenderse de los organismos que lo atacan [presenta] disminución o deterioro

DEF

[Dícese de] un sistema inmune cuya capacidad de respuesta está por debajo de lo normal.

OBS

Incluye la incapacidad para eliminar células cancerosas o extrañas.

OBS

Es una condición de inmunodeficiencia.

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Record 4 2014-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
DEF

A herpes virus which is the major cause of infectious mononucleosis and a common subclinical illness in children and young adults which is characterized by seroconversion to the virus, and which is associated with Burkitt's lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, some B-cell lymphomas in immunosuppressed or immunodeficient persons, and a usually fatal progressive combined variable immunodeficiency.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
DEF

Virus du groupe herpès isolé dans les cultures de cellules provenant d'une tumeur de Burkitt puis dans les cellules lymphoblastoïdes provenant de sujets atteints de cancer du rhinopharynx, de leucémie, ou de mononucléose infectieuse.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Microbiología y parasitología
DEF

Virus de la familia del herpes que causa la mononucleosis infecciosa y probablemente la leucoplaquia, que produce una afección oral que se manifiesta con lesiones papilares blanquecinas de tipo rugoso en los bordes de la lengua.

OBS

Este virus se aloja en la mucosa de la nariz y garganta y permanece en estado latente en los ganglios linfáticos. Se asocia también al linfoma de Burkitt y a la leucoplasia vellosa.

Key term(s)
  • virus de Epstein Barr
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Record 5 2005-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parasitoses
DEF

A protozoan that commonly infects mammals and birds throughout the world.

CONT

T. gondii infection in humans is usually asymptomatic. However, clinical and/or pathologic evidence of disease(toxoplasmosis) occurs in some cases, particularly in the immunodeficient patient and fetus. Infection is characterized by two stages : acute(recently acquired) and chronic(latent).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parasitoses
CONT

Le Toxoplasma gondii est un protozoaire [...] la toxoplasmose acquise est souvent bénigne, mais la toxoplasmose congénitale réalise volontiers des formes graves.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Parasitosis
DEF

Protozoario parásito causante de toxoplasmosis.

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