Coinfection

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Contents 1 More Specific Terms 2 Introduction 3 More General Terms 4 References

More Specific Terms

• HIV1/hepatitis C-coinfection
• HIV1/malaria coinfection
• HIV1/tuberculosis coinfection

Introduction

• Infection with 2 or more infectious agents.

• A superinfection is a new infection in addition to an infection already present which is in essence a coinfection.

More General Terms

• infection (infectious disease)

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999

coinfection; superinfection