Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A second infection that follows recovery from a previous infection by the same causative agent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Infection a second time or subsequently.
Wiktionary
Examples
“Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retroviruses.”
“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.”
The Guardian: China vaccinates 4.5m people in fight against polio
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Polio had been eradicated, before a recent reinfection from India.”
“It includes education to help prevent reinfection in children after they are treated.”
The Huffington Post: J&J Giving $200 Million For Health Of Women, Kids
“Why, one might ask, were restrictions not kept on long enough for any possibility of reinfection to be avoided?”
“Worse, less than a quarter of the remedies discussed side effects, nor did they offer advice on how to avoid reinfection or infecting others.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘reinfection’.
-
Old MacDonald
Words with the vowels eieio.
predilection, predigestion, redirection, reinfection, reinsertion, venisection, reimpression, redigestion, reinspection, reinjection, peristedion, demipension and 37 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for reinfection.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.