- Body Systems
- Health Care
- Threats to Health
- Healthy Living
Latent infections
Latent infections can remain dormant and asymptomatic for a long time, periodically becoming reactivated.
Normally the immune system effectively deals with reactivated pathogens; however, during times of immunodeficiency, serious infection can occur.
Viruses
- CMV
- EBV
- HSV
- VZV
- HBV
- rabies
Bacteria
- M tuberculosis
- H pylori
- Treponema
Fungi
- Pneumoncystis jiroveci
- cryptococcus neoformans
Protozoa
- Enamoeba
- Leishmania
- Plasmodium
- T. gondii
Helminths
- schistosoma
- T solium
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