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A latent pathogen infection classification system that would significantly increase healthcare safety
1, San Jose, USA.
Abstract:
Most viral, bacterial, fungal, and protozoan pathogens can cause latent infections. Latent pathogens can be reactivated from any intentional medical treatment causing immune system suppression, pathogen infections, malnutrition, stress, or drug side effects. These reactivations of latent pathogen infections can be dangerous and even lethal, especially in immuno-suppressed individuals. The latent pathogen infections in an individual can be classified and updated on a periodic basis in a four category system by whether or not an individual's immune system is damaged and by whether or not these latent infections will assist other active or latent pathogen infections. Such a classification system for latent infections by viral, bacterial, fungal, and protozoan parasite pathogens would be practical and useful and indicate whether certain medical treatments will be dangerous for transmitting or reactivating an individual's latent pathogen infections. This classification system will immediately provide latent pathogen infection status information that is potentially vital for emergency care and essential for quickly and safely selecting tissue or organ transplant donors and recipients, and it will significantly increase the safety of medical care for both patients and medical care providers.
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