Chronic inflammation can result from the failure to eliminate the agent causing acute inflammation, such as infectious organisms like Mycobacterium tuberculosis, protozoa, fungi, and other parasites that resist host defenses and persist in tissue.

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• chronic inflammation concept
• parasites concept