coinfection

English

Etymology

co- +‎ infection

Noun

coinfection (countable and uncountable, plural coinfections)

  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.
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