Disease or Syndrome
coinfection
Subclass of:
Infection
Definitions related to coinfection:
  • Simultaneous infection of a host organism by two or more pathogens. In virology, coinfection commonly refers to simultaneous infection of a single cell by two or more different viruses.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (co-infection) The simultaneous infection of a host by multiple pathogen species.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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