The precise type of opportunistic infection (bacterial, viral, fungal, or protozoan/parasitic) that occurs depends on the type and extent of immunologic alteration, whether it is cellular, humoral, phagocytic, or a combined defect; and on organisms present inside and outside the body.
Definition of clammy. clammier. ; clammiest. 1 : being damp, soft, sticky, and usually cool cold clammy hands clammy air. 2 : lacking normal human warmth the clammy atmosphere of an institution.
What your SNOT says about your health: Yellow mucus means you have a cold while black gunge is a sign of a fungal infection. Many of us have been struck with an unexpected sneeze and been caught without a tissue. And in that case we are faced with a dreaded thing; our own mucus.