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Descriptor English: Persistent Infection
Descriptor Spanish: Infección Persistente
Descriptor infección persistente
Entry term(s) infección a largo plazo
infección crónica
Scope note: Infección de duración prolongada con presentación continua de características clínicas. La infección persistente surge debido a la incapacidad de las células huésped para eliminar por completo las infecciones primarias. Cuando las infecciones persistentes se resuelven de manera que los síntomas de la infección están controlados, a menudo reciben el nombre de infecciones crónicas. Una INFECCIÓN LATENTE es aquella en la que la manifestación de síntomas clínicos se produce más tarde.
Descriptor Portuguese: Infecção Persistente
Descriptor French: Infection persistante
Entry term(s): Chronic Infection
Chronic Infections
Infection, Chronic
Infection, Long Term
Infection, Persistent
Long Term Infection
Long Term Infections
Persistent Infections
Tree number(s): C01.645
C23.550.291.902
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000088562
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: coordinate with specific infection
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Infections (1963-2021)
Public MeSH Note: 2022
History Note: 2022
Related: Chronic Disease MeSH
DeCS ID: 59689
Unique ID: D000088562
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Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2021/07/07
Persistent Infection - Preferred
Concept UI M000741905
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Persistent Infection
Entry term(s) Infection, Long Term
Infection, Persistent
Long Term Infection
Long Term Infections
Persistent Infections
Chronic Infection - Narrower
Concept UI M000741906
Preferred term Chronic Infection
Entry term(s) Chronic Infections
Infection, Chronic



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