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Descriptor English:   Superinfection 
Descriptor Spanish:   Superinfección 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Super-Infecção 
Synonyms English:   Microbial Superinvasion
Superinvasion, Microbial  
Tree Number:   C01.539.597.880
C02.597.880
C03.684.880
Definition English:   A frequent complication of drug therapy for microbial infection. It may result from opportunistic colonization following immunosuppression by the primary pathogen and can be influenced by the time interval between infections, microbial physiology, or host resistance. Experimental challenge and in vitro models are sometimes used in virulence and infectivity studies. 
Indexing Annotation English:   opportunistic infect; IM; coord with specific infect (IM)
See Related English:   Viral Interference
 
History Note English:   1989 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
blood cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced classification
congenital complications
diet therapy diagnosis
drug therapy economics
ethnology embryology
enzymology epidemiology
etiology genetics
history immunology
metabolism microbiology
mortality nursing
pathology prevention & control
physiopathology parasitology
psychology radiography
rehabilitation radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy surgery
therapy transmission
urine ultrasonography
veterinary virology
Record Number:   23844 
Unique Identifier:   D015163 

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