monoinfections

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A form of monoinfection — infection with a single type of microorganism

Scrabble 21

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of monoinfection

    Similar to the differences between monoinfections and polybacterial infection in gene expression analysis, the cytokine response to polybacterial infection shares very little overlap with the other groups, with only MCP-1 up-regulated in P.

    2015 December 1, “Polymicrobial Oral Infection with Four Periodontal Bacteria Orchestrates a Distinct Inflammatory Response and Atherosclerosis in ApoE null Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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