English Explanatory Dictionary

coinfection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Simultaneous infection by two pathogens (a pair of copathogens), any combination of viruses and/or bacteria; often one infection is a secondary bacterial infection that gets its opportunity from the effects of the (viral or bacterial) first one.

Word forms

coinfection coinfections

Etymology

From co- + infection.

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