Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A second infection that follows recovery from a previous infection by the same causative agent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Infection a second time or subsequently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Another
infection , another instance of beinginfected
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Examples
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"Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retroviruses."
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"Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retroviruses."
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"Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retroviruses."
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"Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retroviruses."
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He said polio-free countries will be at risk of reinfection if they do not sustain high immunisation rates and without strong political will to eradicate the disease.
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A smaller amount, $34 million, is focused on fighting polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan, both conflict nations stuck in a cycle of reinfection between their populations.
Gates Presses Case for Vaccination Nour Malas 2011
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The frequency of successful attacks, internal post-discovery audits, and the durations before such attacks were discovered suggests that these payloads are rather difficult to detect pre-infection and (due to their design) are not particularly conducive to the development of proactive signature based profiles after discovery, since many of targets report frequent reinfection.
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They demonstrated that healthy colonies near an infected one can also become infected, that the fungal infections can be controlled with a specific antibiotic called fumagillin, and that after the six-month period of protection from the antibiotic ends, reinfection of the hive is possible.
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They demonstrated that healthy colonies near an infected one can also become infected, that the fungal infections can be controlled with a specific antibiotic called fumagillin, and that after the six-month period of protection from the antibiotic ends, reinfection of the hive is possible.
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They demonstrated that healthy colonies near an infected one can also become infected, that the fungal infections can be controlled with a specific antibiotic called fumagillin, and that after the six-month period of protection from the antibiotic ends, reinfection of the hive is possible.
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