How to Use coinfection in a Sentence

coinfection

noun
  • Rather, flurona is a coinfection of the flu and coronavirus.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Wells suspects that she was exposed to hepatitis C during the same episode because coinfections were common in those days.
    Sandra G. Boodman, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Other countries, among them Brazil, Hungary, and Spain have also confirmed instances of the coinfection.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The best data about coinfection come from studies of more serious viruses, such as H.I.V. and hepatitis.
    Richard Klasco, M.d., New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Whatever the historic prevalence of coinfection, the twindemic never happened last winter.
    Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The authors speculate that the Furin cleavage site could be acquired upon coinfection with either another bat or some other exotic species.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Bay Area scientists agreed that recombination due to delta and omicron coinfection isn’t surprising.
    Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Two cases of coinfection have already been reported in another study currently under review, the study's authors stated.
    Erin Prater, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Another study of patients hospitalized with viral or bacterial infections found that nearly half had a coinfection with another pathogen.
    Hayley Muendlein, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Scientists there decided to start hunting for examples of coinfection and possible recombination earlier this year.
    Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022

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