title: [Diseases due to opportunist organisms as the cause of death in autopsy material (author's transl)].
abstract: Opportunist organisms become pathogenic as a result of reduced resistance of the host. In 1000 unselected autopsies, a "purulent" infectious disease was found to be the cause of death in 15.7% of the cases, an opportunist pathogenic organism being frequently demonstrated on culture. Morphologically, with a suitable histological technique, only opportunist fungi showed a characteristic substrate. Visceral mycoses with considerable significance for the cause of death were found in 1% of all cases. This emphasizes the opportunist pathogenic fungus as a potentially fatal causative organism which, however, cannot possibly cause an infection if the reservoir of pathogens is cleared prophylactically.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001167:Arteritis / Q000209:etiology; D001344:Autopsy; D002175:Candida / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology; D011015:Pneumonia, Aspiration / Q000209:etiology; D018805:Sepsis / Q000209:etiology
vernacular_title: Erkrankungen durch opportunistische Keime als Todesursache im Obduktionsgut