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Abstract
Infection which lasts for a long period with continuous display of clinical features. Persistent infection arises due to inability of host cells to clear primary infections completely. When persistent infections are cleared so that infection symptoms are under control they are often referred to as chronic infections. LATENT INFECTIONS are infections in which manifestation of clinical symptoms appear later.
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- Long Term Infection
- Infection, Long Term
- Infection, Persistent
- Long Term Infections
- Persistent Infections
- Chronic Infection
- Chronic Infections
- Infection, Chronic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coordinate with specific infection
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2022
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- Infections (1963-2021)
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- National Library of Medicine. Persistent Infection. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000088562. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000088562
- Persistent Infection. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112062712