In silent feiung, a person becomes infected with a pathogen but does not notice the infection because of the asymptomatic course. A silent and subclinical infection is present. Through this infection, he becomes immunized against the specific pathogen and does not contract the pathogen group in the future.
What is silent celebration?
In silent feiung, a person becomes infected with a pathogen but does not notice the infection because of the asymptomatic course. In the clinical setting, the term “silent” is usually used when there are no symptoms in the context of disease. Thus, the clinical symptomatology of asymptomatic disease patterns is silent symptomatology. Silent celebration refers to the immune system. When unvaccinated, healthy children with strong immune systems come into contact with certain pathogens, the process of silent celebration occurs in terms of developing immunity. In this phenomenon, the unvaccinated child experiences a so-called silent infection. The infection does not lead to the onset of the disease, but is asymptomatic and results in immunity to the pathogen. Silent infections are either persistent or subclinical. In the subclinical form, the immune system prevents disease onset. In the persistent form, the pathogen survives in the host but does not replicate pathogens. In this variant, clinical signs of disease may occur later, such as in stressful situations.
Function and task
Immunology has recognized that an organism can develop immunity against the pathogens of infectious diseases, after silent or asymptomatic infections. The respective pathogen is completely killed in the body by means of the immune system, without the affected person having been immunized against the pathogen type in the past. After the infection has occurred, no signs of illness can be observed in the affected person. Thus, the silent feiung works similar to a vaccination and leads to the fact that the affected person is protected against renewed infections with the respective pathogen. The affected person can therefore no longer fall ill with diseases of the respective pathogen type after a silent infection, since antibodies from the direct confrontation with the pathogen remain in his immune system. In most cases, the affected person does not notice anything about the signless immunization. In some cases, however, affected individuals report a general feeling of fatigue or tiredness. However, these symptoms are not usually associated with disease value. According to the observations made so far, silent fei ture only occurs in humans if, on the one hand, they have a strong immune system and, on the other hand, they are dealing with an infection whose pathogens have already adapted strongly to human reservoir hosts. Only in the case of adapted pathogens is a healthy immune system supposed to be able to fight previously unknown pathogens to a sufficient degree and thus protect humans from subsequent infections with the same pathogen. The basis for the silent celebration is the adaptive power of the immune system. Thus, in addition to an innate and nonspecific immune system, each person possesses a specific, adaptive immune defense, also known as immunological memory. The immune system’s ability to adapt to new pathogens is maintained by its ability to recognize antigens as specific structures and to produce molecularly targeted antibodies against the specific aggressor. The antibodies that remain after an infection are specific antibodies and correspond to memory cells that implement appropriate defense responses in the shortest possible time upon repeated contact with the pathogen.
Diseases and ailments
Silent celebrations have so far been observed mainly with the pathogens of diseases such as mumps. The subclinical form is the variant of silent fei described above. However, not all people experience silent feiings permanently subclinical. Some people do not experience symptoms, but the pathogens remain in their body and are not completely eradicated by their immune system. In this context, there is talk of persistent infection as a subset of silent infection. The respective pathogen thus survives for a more or less indefinite time within the host.For unknown reasons, however, it produces few or no productive pathogens. Therefore, this type of infection also remains asymptomatic for the time being. However, when stress, poor diet, and insomnia are added, or the immune system is compromised in some other way, persistent forms of silent fever sometimes develop clinical symptoms of infection after months or years. Medical science recognizes several subvarieties of persistent infection. For example, the term tolerated infection describes an infection acquired intrauterine, whose pathogens continue to multiply normally but are regularly excreted by the organism. Latent infection forms the second subgroup. In this form, the pathogens and the immune system balance each other out for a long time. After some time, one of the two sides gains the upper hand and the disease either breaks out with clinical symptoms or the immune system succeeds in completely killing the pathogens. A final form of mute persistent infection is masked infection. In this type of infection, the disease is neither indirectly nor directly detectable. While silent, subclinical infections result in silent feiication, the same need not be true for persistently silent infections. Silent fei ture occurs only when the immune system gains the upper hand and antibodies remain from the fight that can remember the specific causative agents of the infectious disease.
