RT Book, Section
A1 Levinson, Warren
A1 Chin-Hong, Peter
A1 Joyce, Elizabeth A.
A1 Nussbaum, Jesse
A1 Schwartz, Brian
SR Print(0)
ID 1175824215
T1 Pathogenesis
T2 Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 16e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260116717
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175824215
RD 2024/04/18
AB A  microorganism  is  a  pathogen  if  it  is  capable  of  causing  disease;  however,  some  organisms  are  highly  pathogenic  (i.e.,  they  often  cause  disease),  whereas  others  cause  disease  rarely.  Opportunistic  pathogens  are  those  that  rarely,  if  ever,  cause  disease  in  immunocompetent  people  but  can  cause  serious  infection  in  patients  with  reduced  host  defenses  (immunocompromised)  and,  as  discussed  in  Chapter  6,  are  frequent  members  of  the  body’s  normal  flora.