In humans with a normal immune system, it is an extremely common silent infection.

Such conditions, according to the dogma, can suddenly turn what had long been a silent infection into a life-threatening one.

Although the phenomenon of silent infections is known, scientists regard it as extremely uncommon.

Could it have become a silent infection in the male like some cases of chlarnydia or mycoplasma?

His abnormal behavior due to Silent infection reflects on not seeing Nami.

These diseases can have a wide range of effects, varying from silent infection - with no signs or symptoms - to severe illness and death.

But if death is familiar, the silent infection of a large share of the healthy with an incurable virus is a new kind of plague.

The diagnosis of Hepatitis B took a few days, followed by the news of advanced liver cancer caused by 18 years of silent infection.

Chlamydia is often referred to as the 'silent infection', as most men and women don't have any obvious signs or symptoms, or they're so mild they go unnoticed.

The current strategy for managing tuberculosis in poor countries generally depends on patients' seeking care and aims at treating patients with active tuberculosis, not those with silent infection.

The term "latent tuberculosis treatment" is preferred in the US because the medication does not actually prevent infection: it prevents an existing silent infection from becoming active.

But while Dr. Fauci only looked for active virus, Dr. Haase's team also looked for silent infections, H.I.V. harbored inside the cells, doing nothing.

The geriatrician, Dr. Rosanne M. Leipzig, suspected a silent infection - something the other doctors had missed because Mrs. Foley had no fever, as old people rarely do.

In the U.S., physicians talk about latent tuberculosis treatment because the medication does not actually prevent infection: the person is already infected and the medication is intended to prevent existing silent infection from becoming active disease.

The striking increase in liver cancers here and in other developed countries is a result of chronic and usually silent infections by the hepatitis B and C viruses, which are spread by blood and attack the liver.

The authors, a team headed by Dr. Ann E. Wakefield of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, said the findings cast serious doubt as to whether PCP "necessarily results" from reactivation of a silent infection as a child.