Host factor is a medical term referring to the traits of an individual person or animal that affect susceptibility to disease, especially in comparison to other individuals.
Acute illness, usually gastroenteritis, occurs after an incubation that varies from 3 to over 60 days depending on size of the inoculum and host factors. Onset is often insidious.
This group has the best prognosis, which depends on a variety of tumor and host factors. Patients with resectable disease who have medical contraindications to surgery are candidates for curative radiation therapy.
Ninety percent of all flu deaths are in the sixty-five and older age bracket, with the other ten percent consisting of persons with host factors such as an immunodeficency.
After treatment, the cure rate is about 40-50 percent but it is highly dependent on viral and host factors. Also, monitoring of clinical symptoms and laboratory values during treatment of viral hepatitis is very important.
The frequency of these events depends upon several factors including the clinical setting, the patient's level of opioid tolerance, and host factors specific to the individual.
 See also: Death, Diarrhea, Vomiting, Fever, Cough
  
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