OPIM includes various infectious materials like tissues and body fluids, antigens in infectious diseases trigger immune responses, and noninfectious materials can also act as antigens.
OPIM or Other Potentially Infectious Material includes unfixed tissue or organs other than intact skin from a human (living or dead), potentially infectious cell or organ cultures, and many body fluids. These materials can pose significant health risks due to potential infections.
Antigens in infectious diseases include microbial structures, toxins, allergens, foreign tissues, and the body's own cells that are not recognized as normal self. These substances can trigger immune responses.
Noninfectious materials acting as antigens encompass allergens like dust, pollen, foreign tissues from transplants, and cells the body fails to recognize as self, such as cancer cells.
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