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IMMUNOSUPPRESSED [6 records]

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Record 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 2010-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blood
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
DEF

The presence of fungus in the blood.

CONT

Coccidioidomycosis usually results in dissemination beyond the lungs in immunosuppressed patients, such as organ recipients or those with AIDS or lymphoma... When infections are more fulminant, they are usually in broadly immunosuppressed patients and produce fungemia detectable with blood cultures and diffuse reticulonodular embolic pulmonary infiltrates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sang
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
DEF

Présence de champignons (fungi) dans le sang.

CONT

L'intestin, contaminé par voie alimentaire est la source initiale des levures qui gagneraient par voie hématogène (fongémie post-prandiale) par infection des cellules intestinales ou directe par «persorption» ou par contiguïté ano-périnéale, le vagin.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blood
CONT

Strategies for the prevention of infection in the myelo-suppressed or immunosuppressed cancer patient.

OBS

myelosuppressive: inhibiting bone narrow activity, resulting in decreased production of blood cells and platelets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sang
CONT

Cancéreux en myélosuppression.

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Skin
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
CONT

Toxic epidermal necrolysis(TEN), occurs in adults, often secondary to drugs(e. g., zdrugdatabasez ampicillin, allopurinol) and occasionally to Staphylococcus infections in an immunosuppressed patient. TEN is a reaction to a variety of antigenic materials that cause a suprabasilar split in the epidermis with necrosis of much of the overlying epidermis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareil cutané
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
DEF

Forme grave de toxidermie bulleuse caractérisée par un érythème généralisé avec épidermolyse aiguë.

Spanish

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