{"slug":"infection","tag":"infection","variants":["infection"],"description":"No description yet","count":2,"kinds":{"technology":2},"related":[{"slug":"rejuvenation","tag":"rejuvenation","shared":2},{"slug":"survivorship","tag":"survivorship","shared":2},{"slug":"immune","tag":"immune","shared":1},{"slug":"transplant","tag":"transplant","shared":1},{"slug":"vaccination","tag":"vaccination","shared":1}],"records":[{"id":"rejuv-frontier-immune-reconstitution","kind":"technology","name":"Rebuilding the immune system after treatment","route":"/technologies/rejuv-frontier-immune-reconstitution/","status":"standard-of-care","tldr":"Chemotherapy, a transplant and CAR-T empty out the immune system, and rebuilding it takes months to years. Blood counts come back before protection does: the antibodies built up over a lifetime, from childhood jabs and from infections, are largely lost after a transplant. Re-vaccination puts them back, on a published schedule."},{"id":"rejuv-tx-infection-by-phase","kind":"technology","name":"Infection risk after transplant and cell therapy, phase by phase, and the prophylaxis that follows it","route":"/technologies/rejuv-tx-infection-by-phase/","status":"standard-of-care","tldr":"Which infections threaten someone after a transplant depends almost entirely on how long it has been, because the immune system returns in a known order: bacteria and fungi first, viruses such as cytomegalovirus in the middle months, encapsulated bacteria later. The preventive medicines are matched to those phases."}]}