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During the last few decades, certain clinical and therapeutic developments, such as the HIV/AIDS pandemic, advances in organ transplantation, cancer chemoradiotherapy, prolonged use of steroids, and other immunosuppressants for various autoimmune diseases while prolonging patient survival, have also created major aberrations in host defense mechanisms, thereby increasing the vulnerability of these patients to a variety of opportunistic infections.
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Gupta, R.K., Gupta, P. (2017). Introduction to Opportunistic Infections. In: Gupta, R., Gupta, P. (eds) Pathology of Opportunistic Infections . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1669-1_1
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