"Opportunistic Infections" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An infection caused by an organism which becomes pathogenic under certain conditions, e.g., during immunosuppression.
| Descriptor ID |
D009894
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.597 C02.597 C03.684
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| Concept/Terms |
Opportunistic Infections- Opportunistic Infections
- Infection, Opportunistic
- Infections, Opportunistic
- Opportunistic Infection
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Opportunistic Infections" by people in this website by year, and whether "Opportunistic Infections" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1995 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1996 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1999 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2003 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2008 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2015 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2017 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Opportunistic Infections" by people in Profiles.
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Mucormycosis: update on clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2023 12 01; 36(6):427-435.
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Guidelines for Infection Prophylaxis, Monitoring and Therapy in Cord Blood Transplantation. Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 05; 27(5):359-362.
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Knowledge gaps in candidaemia/invasive candidiasis in haematological cancer patients. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2021 02 11; 76(3):543-546.
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Risk factors associated with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in juvenile myositis in North America. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2021 02 01; 60(2):829-836.
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"Cerberus" T Cells: A Glucocorticoid-Resistant, Multi-Pathogen Specific T Cell Product to Fight Infections in Severely Immunocompromised Patients. Front Immunol. 2020; 11:608701.
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Epidemiology of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease in Europe and Japan by Delphi estimation. Respir Med. 2020 11; 173:106164.
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Acute acalculous cholecystitis due to Fusarium species and review of the literature on fungal cholecystitis. Mycoses. 2019 Sep; 62(9):847-853.
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Ciprofloxacin for BK viremia prophylaxis in kidney transplant recipients: Results of a prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Am J Transplant. 2019 06; 19(6):1831-1837.
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Trichosporonosis in Pediatric Patients With a Hematologic Disorder. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2018 Aug 17; 7(3):199-204.
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Imaging of Pneumonias and Other Thoracic Complications After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol. 2019 Jul - Aug; 48(4):393-401.