0 having an immune system that is prevented from working as effectively as it should, usually as a result of a medical treatment:
Many children die from secondary infections that they contract while they are immunosuppressed during chemotherapy.
The risk of severe infection is particularly high in people who have HIV infection, have had a splenectomy, or are immunosuppressed.
A patient can be considered for the therapy if the patient is not immunosuppressed (i.e. not receiving systemic steroids or other immunosuppressive drugs, such as those used for transplantation).
Avoid contact with newborns, children with eczema, or immunosuppressed individuals as these groups are at higher risk.
Pneumocystis pneumonia in the United States is almost exclusively limited to severely immunosuppressed patients.
