¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Superinfected
1. superinfect [v] - See also: superinfect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superinfected
Literary usage of Superinfected
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Epidemiology and public health: a text and reference book for physicians by Victor Clarence Vaughan (1922)
"As long as a man has syphilis he cannot be superinfected whatever the degree of
exposure to which he submits himself. If he has entirely recovered from ..."
2. Sahli's Tuberculin Treatment: Including a Discussion of the Nature and by Hermann Sahli (1912)
"In the former, the absence of tox- immunity of the infected and superinfected
guinea-pig is at once evident by the immediate inflammatory reaction to the ..."
3. Enforcement Procedures And Scheduling For Occupational Exposure To Tuberculosisby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Because of the risk for patients becoming superinfected with drug-resistant
organisms, patients with TB should be placed in the same room only if all ..."
4. Digestive Diseases of the U. S.: Epidemiology and Impact edited by James E. Everhart (1994)
"Anti-HDV will develop in all superinfected patients but not necessarily at the
onset of illness. In chronic HDV infection, antigen is not detectable, ..."