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coinfection /co·in·fec·tion/ (ko´in-fek″shun) simultaneous infection by separate pathogens, as by hepatitis B and hepatitis D viruses.
Coinfection
Invasion of the body by two viruses at about the same time.
Mentioned in: Hepatitis D

coinfection
[ko′in-fek′shun]
simultaneous infection of a cell or organism by separate pathogens, as by hepatitis B and hepatitis D viruses.

Coinfection
The simultaneous presence of 2 or more infections, which may increase the severity and duration of one or both
Examples Babesiosis/Lyme disease; syphilis/HIV

coinfection [ko´in-fek″shun]
simultaneous infection by separate pathogens, as by hepatitis B and hepatitis D viruses.

coinfection
The simultaneous presence of 2 or more infections, which may ↑ disease severity and duration


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Further, he notes that coinfection with organisms such as Bartonella, Ehrlichia, and Babesia is nearly always missed due to a failure of suitable lab diagnostics.
Approximately, one million pregnancies per annum are thought to be complicated by coinfection with malaria and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
in almost 25% of Ugandan patients with untreated HIV-TB coinfection in 2 different clinical trials and found that low-level viremia was not related to baseline CD4 cell count or severity of TB.
 
 
 
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