Citrobacter koseri was found in an immunocompetent adult.

It is also occasionally isolated from immunocompetent individuals.

Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis ( also known as " Lupus verrucosus ," " Prosector's wart ," and " Warty tuberculosis ") is a rash of small, red papular nodules in the skin that may appear 2-4 weeks after inoculation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a previously infected and immunocompetent individual.

About 98 % of thymocytes die during the development processes in the thymus by failing either positive selection or negative selection, whereas the other 2 % survive and leave the thymus to become mature immunocompetent T cells.

Thus, it is obvious that the tonsil have an important role to play in the defense of the host against bacterial and viral infections, and the success of regional mucosal immunity induced by intranasal vaccines most likely depends on these immunocompetent tissues in the oropharynx and nasopharynx.

In immunocompetent patients, Epstein-Barr virus causes infectious mononucleosis, characterised by a proliferation of B-lymphocytes which is controlled by Suppressor T cells.

The immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome ( IRIS ) has been described in immunocompetent hosts who have meningitis caused by C. gattii and C. grubii.

Most often it is caused by viral infection and hence antibiotic therapy is not indicated in immunocompetent individuals.

In addition, infection with less virulent strains may not show overt clinical signs, but birds that have bursal atrophy with fibrotic or cystic follicles and lymphocytopenia before six weeks of age, may be susceptible to opportunistic infection and may die of infection by agents that would not usually cause disease in immunocompetent birds.

For immunocompetent mothers, there is no significant threat, but the virus has damaging effects upon the fetus.

Recently, it has been suggested the otherwise immunocompetent patients taking infliximab may be at a higher risk for fungemia.

Therefore, determination of cytokine profiles in tonsil study will provide key information for further in-depth analysis of the cause and underlying mechanisms of these disorders, as well as the role and possible interactions between the T-and B-lymphocytes and other immunocompetent cells.

In consequence it is a site of, and potential focus for, infections, and is one of the chief immunocompetent tissues in the oropharynx.

Antiviral treatment is recommended for all immunocompetent individuals with herpes zoster over 50 years old, preferably given within 72 hours of the appearance of the rash.

LCMV infection manifests itself in a wide range of clinical symptoms, and may even be asymptomatic for immunocompetent individuals.

Antibiotic therapy is continued for six months ( in immunocompetent people ) to a year ( in immunosuppression ), and may need to be continued indefinitely.

Life threatening fungal infections in humans most often occur in immunocompromised patients or vulnerable people with a weakened immune system, although fungi are common problems in the immunocompetent population as the causative agents of skin, nail or yeast infections.

Strongyloidiasis in immunocompetent individuals is usually an indolent disease.

* Primary central nervous system lymphoma occurs most often in immuno-compromised patients, in particular those with AIDS, but it can occur in the immunocompetent as well.

In most immunocompetent patients, the infection enters a latent phase, during which only bradyzoites are present, forming cysts in nervous and muscle tissues.

According to Merck the standard drug to counter infection is pyrimethamine, but most immunocompetent asymptomatic people infected with T. gondii, with the exception of neonates and pregnant women, require no treatment though recent studies have indicated an influence of T. gondii on suicidal behaviours in humans which — if widely confirmed — might warrant treatment attention.

The sixth nerve is the most commonly affected cranial nerve in immunocompetent people with tuberculosis.

Ciclosporin is thought to bind to the cytosolic protein cyclophilin ( an immunophilin ) of immunocompetent lymphocytes, especially T-lymphocytes.

Any positive immunological effect is thought to be the result of melatonin acting on high affinity receptors ( MT1 and MT2 ) expressed in immunocompetent cells.

There are 3 possible forms of the illness in immunocompetent people.

Although both the immunocompetent and the immunocompromised can be infected, it is extremely rare to find systemic infections in HIV-negative patients.

Nevertheless, one trial studying immunocompetent patients older than 50 years of age with localized herpes zoster, suggested that administration of prednisone with aciclovir improved healing time and quality of life.

It is very rare in immunocompetent people, with an incidence of 5 – 30 cases per million person-years.

Cryptococcus gattii causes infections in immunocompetent people ( those having a functioning immune system ), but C. neoformans v. grubii, and v. neoformans usually only cause clinically evident infections in persons who have some form of defect in their immune systems ( immunocompromised persons ).

A hairless and immunodeficient breed was the result of a spontaneous genetic mutation in inbred laboratory strains from the Hartley stock at the Eastman Kodak Company in 1979.

The contemporary breed of Sphynx ( known also as the Canadian Sphynx, distinct from the Russian Sphynx breeds — Peterbald, Don Sphynx ) started in 1966, in Roncesvalles, Toronto when a hairless kitten named Prune was born.

Together with a few naked kittens found later it founded the first attempt to create a hairless breed.

Sphynx cats also appear to have more ear wax than most hairy domestic cats because they have little to no hair in their ears to catch and protect them from a build up of impurities in their ears, like dirt, skin oils ( sebum ), and ear wax which accumulates more frequently in the hairless sphynx breed.

Although hairless cats have been reported throughout history, breeders in Europe have been working on the Sphynx breed since the early 1960s.

As of 2004, the United Kennel Club recognized a new hairless breed of terrier derived from the Rat Terrier called the American Hairless Terrier.

* Peruvian Inca Orchid, a breed of hairless dog originating in Peru

The Donskoy is a hairless cat breed of Russian origin.

This breed started in 1987 with the discovery of a hairless cat in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don by cat breeder Elena Kovaleva.

It is not related to the better known hairless breed of cat the Sphynx, also known as the Canadian hairless, whose characteristic hairlessness is caused by a recessive gene, whereas the Don hairlessness is caused by a dominant gene.

The Peterbald breed was originally created by crossing Donskoy with Siamese and Oriental cats to create a hairless cat of Oriental type.

* Sphynx ( cat ), a breed of hairless cat