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- noun Simultaneous
infection by twoviruses
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Infection with both pneumonia and influenza is called a coinfection, and a recent study found it’s likely to be an important contributing factor in some of the deaths that have occurred so far from the swine flu.
Flu vaccine FAQs: Pneumonia vaccine can help prevent flu complications 2009
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Infection with both pneumonia and influenza is called a coinfection, and a recent study found it’s likely to be an important contributing factor in some of the deaths that have occurred so far from the swine flu.
Flu vaccine FAQs: Pneumonia vaccine can help prevent flu complications 2009
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It’s known as a coinfection, and in previous flu pandemics pneumonia has been a leading factor in deaths.
Pneumonia vaccine may help prevent swine flu complications 2009
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It’s known as a coinfection, and in previous flu pandemics pneumonia has been a leading factor in deaths.
Pneumonia vaccine may help prevent swine flu complications 2009
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Along with the vaccines for the flu, a pnuemoccocal vaccine can help to reduce your risk of coinfection and severe illness this flu season.
Pneumonia vaccine may help prevent swine flu complications 2009
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Along with the vaccines for the flu, a pnuemoccocal vaccine can help to reduce your risk of coinfection and severe illness this flu season.
Pneumonia vaccine may help prevent swine flu complications 2009
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For reasons that are poorly understood, coinfection can cause a lightning-fast decline in health, especially if the TB strain is resistant to frontline antibiotics.
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In areas of endemicity, coinfection with Borrelia microti or the Ehrlichia species that causes human granulocytic ehrlichiosis HGE may explain persistent symptoms for a small number of these patients.
Archive 2007-03-01 1 Dinosaur 2007
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For all I know, it was a coinfection such as mycoplasma or chlamydia pneumoniae or even some kind of ehrlichiosis that my body was able to clear on its own, although I never tested remotely positive for ehrlichiosis, or some kind of post-infection autoimmune reaction.
Sitemeter Loves Me 1 Dinosaur 2007
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The note caused widespread concern because it described an AIDS virus altered by coinfection with a mouse leukemia virus.
Lynn Margulis: "Definitely a Darwinist" - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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