单词 | superinfection |
释义 | superinfectionn. 1. Medicine. Infection with a different kind or strain of organism occurring in a person or animal already suffering from an infection; (in later use) spec. infection with a newly acquired drug-resistant bacterium occurring in an individual being treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics; an instance of this. In early use also: reinfection with the same organism (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > infection > recurrent reinfection1661 superinfection1893 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > infection > after or on top of earlier infection superinfection1893 1893 St. Louis Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 64 93 After ulceration the process became more and more rapid on account of the superinfection by pyogenic bacteria. 1915 Amer. Med. 10 611/2 Recent experimental research has shown that an animal infected with tubercle bacilli cannot be reinfected with the same virus, nor can superinfection with different strains of tubercle bacilli be accomplished. 1932 Jrnl. Parasitol. 19 76 All became resistant to superinfection after 6 to 8 doses of larvae. 1961 Lancet 12 Aug. 352/2 Bacteræmia developed as a superinfection during antibiotic therapy. 1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xxvi. 459 While the incidence of superinfection is low with narrow-spectrum antibiotics such as penicillin, it is a common occurrence with tetracycline and other broad-spectrum antibiotics. 2009 J. C. Gallagher & C. MacDougall Antibiotics Simplified ii. 15 Giving overly broad-spectrum antibiotics can lead to the development of superinfections. 2. Virology. Further infection (by a different or the same virus) of a cell which is already infected by a virus (as an experimental technique or natural process). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > others inoculation1802 plethysmography1890 auxanography1905 subpassage1907 ultrafiltration1908 enucleation1909 turbidimetry1920 microinjection1921 post-treatment1923 microincineration1924 plasmal reaction1925 bursectomy1928 priming1943 superinfection1947 bioengineering1950 superfusion1953 hybridization1961 sham operation1963 transfection1964 transdetermination1965 perifusion1969 zeugmatography1973 1947 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 86 131 The studies described in the present report were designed to establish the superinfection by extraneous viruses of the cells of virus-induced papilloma (cells that contain the Shope papilloma virus). 1981 Virology 109 72/1 Superinfection of the nonproducer cells with EBV..is known to induce synthesis of EA and MA. 2007 D. M. Knipe & P. M. Howley Fields Virol. (ed. 5) vi. 164 Retroviruses have similarly evolved mechanisms to facilitate release and thereby reduce superinfection of a cell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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