What determines Acute vs chronic infections in health individuals?

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I understand that newborns, elderly, and immunocompromised patients are more likely to develop chronic infections or activation of latent infections but what causes a healthy person to clear an infection such as Hep B as opposed to other who go on to develop lifelong chronic infections? I read that HPV in healthy people can clear spontaneously in 2 years but what about people who don't and go on to develop chronic or latent infections? And in healthy individuals, why isnt their immune system able to clear Tuberculosis infections but rather just keep it in a latent phase for the rest of their life.

In short, why do some infections lead to chronic/latency vs others which can be cleared with enough time. And what factors determine the course of the infection in healthy individuals?

thanks

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