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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-12-09  |  453.2 KB  |  1 channel  |  11,025 sample rate  |  21 seconds
Transcription: Opportunistic infections. Many common fungi and bacteria and a few microscopic parasites do not ordinarily cause infections in healthy people. But such ordinarily harmless organisms can produce severe life-threatening and hard-to-control infections in cancer patients by taking advantage of the reduced immune response resulting from the disease or therapy.