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Definition of Autoinfections
1. autoinfection [n] - See also: autoinfection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autoinfections
Literary usage of Autoinfections
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Henry Koplik (1906)
"Among the autoinfections may be mentioned the conditions which obtain in the skin of
... Respiratory autoinfections occur through the aspiration of liquor ..."
2. Epidemiology, or, the remote cause of epidemic diseases in the animal and in by John Parkin (1873)
"autoinfections. Distribution of Microbes in the Normal Organism. ... The recognition
of autoinfections is of recent date and accounts for the numerous facts ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"... with pellagra, alcohol, drugs, etc.; Toxic Infections and autoinfections, with
amentia, uremic and thyroid psychoses and general paralysis ..."
4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"autoinfections only are under consideration in the present paper. However, it
should be clearly borne in mind that colds dependent primarily upon contagion ..."
5. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1905)
"The secondary forms of tuberculosis which often succeed a primary infection of
the bmps may be explained as autoinfections, from the coughing up and ..."
6. Manual of bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1913)
"The treatment is thus interfered with by the superimposition of positive and
negative phases produced by such autoinfections without purposive qualities. ..."
7. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat by David Braden Kyle (1907)
"... having such autoinfections are usually of the neurotic type. The question
involves organic chemistry, and anyone familiar with the work recognizes the ..."