coinfections

C3O1I1N1F4E1C3T1I1O1N1S1

A form of coinfection — Simultaneous infection by two pathogens (a pair of copathogens), any combination of viruses and/or bacteria; often one infection is a secondary bacterial infection that gets its opportunity from the effects of the (viral or bacterial) first one.

Scrabble 19
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of coinfection
Cite this entry
APA

coinfections. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coinfections

MLA

“coinfections.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coinfections. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coinfections,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coinfections.

Source: coinfections on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.