asymptomatic

(adjective)

not exhibiting any symptoms of disease.

Related Terms

Examples of asymptomatic in the following topics:

  • Blastomycosis

    • Skin lesions, usually asymptomatic, that appear as ulcerated lesions with small pustules at the margins
    • Prostatitis may be asymptomatic or may cause pain on urinating.
    • The incubation period is 30 to 100 days, although infection can be asymptomatic.

  • Exceptions to Koch's Postulates

    • Koch abandoned the requirement of the first postulate altogether when he discovered asymptomatic carriers of cholera and, later, of typhoid fever.
    • Asymptomatic or subclinical infection carriers are now known to be a common feature of many infectious diseases, especially viruses such as polio, herpes simplex, HIV, and hepatitis C.

  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)

    • PID can be asymptomatic or present with acute symptoms.
    • Asymptomatic infections should be treated as well, since they can still cause permanent damage to the reproductive tract.

  • Bacterial Vaginosis

    • Bacterial vaginosis may be completely asymptomatic.

  • Amoebic Dysentery (Amoebiasis)

    • Interestingly, individuals can be asymptomatic if infected with trophozoites and can function as carriers by passing cysts in their stool.

  • Hydrogen Oxidation

    • However, over 80 percent of individuals infected with the bacterium are asymptomatic.
    • However, over 80 percent of individuals infected with the bacterium are asymptomatic.

  • Viral Skin Diseases

    • Transmission may also occur through skin-to-skin contact during periods of asymptomatic shedding.
    • However, after several years, outbreaks become less severe and more sporadic, and some people will become perpetually asymptomatic and will no longer experience outbreaks, though they may still be contagious to others.

  • The Vocabulary Epidemiology

    • An asymptomatic carrier (healthy carrier or just carrier) is a person or other organism that has contracted an infectious disease, but who displays no symptoms.
    • Mary Mallon (1870-1938) was nicknamed "Typhoid Mary," an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever.

  • Lyme Disease

    • Asymptomatic infections may occur, though this is the case in less than 7% of infected individuals in the United States.
    • Asymptomatic infection may be more common in Europe.

  • Nematodes

    • Individuals affected with ascariasis can be asymptomatic or suffer from visceral damage due to the travel of the larvae through the body.