Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Infection, such as recurrent boils, caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites that persist on or in the body.
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- noun The
infection of a primaryhost with aparasite , particularly ahelminth , in such a way that the completelife cycle of the parasite happens in a singleorganism , without the involvement of another host.
Etymologies
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auto- + infection
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Examples
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It does not make any more sense than a claim that act of sodomy causes damage to walls of the rectum of a gay person on receptive end of that practice and causes autoinfection of abdominal cavity with bacteria and viruses contained in a fecal matter leaking into abdomen.
Gays are tortured and then killed in Iraq.... GayandRight 2009
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[49], it is thought re-infection from other people or other sources is less likely than autoinfection.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yanmin Hu et al. 2010
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