Opportunistic pathogens are usually present in healthcare settings as hospitals. Such pathogens cause opportunistic diseases that they do not usually cause under normal conditions.
What are the opportunistic pathogens?
Opportunistic pathogens are a group of microorganisms that do not usually infect healthy hosts but produce infections in hospitals, to immunodepressed persons or those patients presenting underlying diseases as cystic fibrosis, which favors infection (Koch and Hoiby, 1993).
What are the examples of opportunistic infection?
Key Points
- Opportunistic infections (OIs) are infections that occur more often or are more severe in people with weakened immune systems than in people with healthy immune systems. ...
- HIV damages the immune system. ...
- HIV-related OIs include pneumonia, Salmonella infection, candidiasis, toxoplasmosis, and tuberculosis (TB).
