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Definition of Reinfection
1. infection [n -S] - See also: infection
Medical Definition of Reinfection
1. A second infection by the same pathogenic agent or a second infection of an organ such as the kidney by a different pathogenic agent. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reinfection
Literary usage of Reinfection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Skin and Venereal Diseases (1921)
"Syphilitic Recurrences and reinfection. reinfections and recurrences in syphilis are
... The author is unable to state that this is a reinfection, ..."
2. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1903)
"I The cause of relapses is a reinvasion of the blood by the typhoid bacilli or
their secretions; but whether this is attributable to a reinfection from ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1901)
"produce no life, its power of reproduction is destroyed, reinfection must come
from a new source. Its use as a medicinal agent is only advocated where ..."
4. The Student's manual of venereal diseases by Berkeley Hill, Arthur Cooper (1886)
"In the best recognized and undoubted cases of reinfection, a regular recurrence
takes place, namely : incubation, indurated initial lesion, enlarged glands, ..."
5. Diagnosis and modern treatment of pulmonary consumption by Arthur Carlyle Latham (1907)
"CHAPTER IV THE AVOIDANCE OF reinfection THERE is no doubt that every person
afflicted with pulmonary consumption may be a source of danger to Question of ..."
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