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Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
Abnormal inflammatory response +   
Abnormal leukocyte physiology +   
Abnormal lymphocyte surface marker expression +   
Abnormal MHC II surface expression +   
Abnormal phagocytosis +   
Abnormality of humoral immunity +   
Abnormality of immune serum protein physiology +   
Autoimmunity +   
Immune dysregulation  
Immunodeficiency +   
Immunologic hypersensitivity +   
Impaired antigen-specific response +   
Sepsis +   
Unusual infection +   
A type of infection that is regarded as a sign of a pathological susceptibility to infection. There are five general subtypes. (i) Opportunistic infection, meaning infection by a pathogen that is not normally able to cause infection in a healthy host (e.g., pneumonia by Pneumocystis jirovecii or CMV); (ii) Unusual location (focus) of an infection (e.g., an aspergillus brain abscess); (iii) a protracted course or lack of adequate response to treatment (e.g., chronic rhinosinusitis); (iv) Unusual severity or intensity of an infection; and (v) unusual recurrence of infections.

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Definition Sources: PMID:22052638

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