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Opportunistic infection
Pronunciation
Definition 1
An infection caused by an organism that does not normally cause disease. Opportunistic infections occur in people with weakened immune systems. (NCI Dictionary)
Definition 2
Infection caused by an organism that is capable of causing disease in immunocompromised patients only (e.g. HIV-positive or transplanted patients).--2004 (NCI Thesaurus)
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