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Definition of Superinfections
1. superinfection [n] - See also: superinfection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superinfections
Literary usage of Superinfections
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser (1918)
"... the method would seem to imply a considerable degree of risk and our experience
with superinfections and reinfections in syphilis does not encourage the ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"MONTGOMERY spoke of superinfections, and objected to the use of the term symbiosis
in this connection. DR. KLOTZ called attention to his own paper, ..."
3. Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Maurice Fishberg (1922)
"superinfections are very difficult, usually impossible; the integuments and mucous
membranes cease to react to the syphilitic virus introduced from without ..."
4. Pulmonary tuberculosis by Maurice Fishberg (1919)
"superinfections are very difficult, usually impossible; the integuments and mucous
membranes cease to react to the syphilitic virus introduced from without ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology by William Allen Pusey (1917)
"... of these cases reported as reinfections undoubtedly represent local recurrences
and another group may perhaps be interpreted as superinfections. ..."
6. Publications by Bureau of Government Laboratories, Philippines, Department of the Interior (1905)
"As a matter of fact, the organisms seem to be about as numerous in cases complicated
by bacterial superinfections as in uncomplicated ones, unless it be in ..."
7. The Lancet-clinic by Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Ohio Valley Medical Association (1912)
"We recognize in the laryngeal and intestinal tuberculosis of consumptives the
typical superinfections with all the peculiarities of the experimental form. ..."
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