A frequent complication of drug therapy for microbial infection. It may result from opportunistic colonization following immunosuppression by the primary pathogen and can be influenced by the time interval between infections, microbial physiology, or host resistance. Experimental challenge and in vitro models are sometimes used in virulence and infectivity studies.

Annotation

opportunistic infect; IM; coord with specific infect (IM)

DUI

D015163 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0023304

Previous indexing

Cell Line (1969-1988); Cells, Cultured (1974-1988); Drug Resistance, Microbial (1966-1988); Tissue Culture (1967-1980)

History note

1989

Public note

1989