How to Use coinfection in a Sentence
coinfection
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How big of a risk is coinfection with Covid and other viruses?
—Erika Edwards, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2024
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The vaccine will not prevent bird flu infection, but can reduce the risk of coinfection with avian and flu viruses.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 May 2024
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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
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Whatever the historic prevalence of coinfection, the twindemic never happened last winter.
—Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
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Other countries, among them Brazil, Hungary, and Spain have also confirmed instances of the coinfection.
—Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2022
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Bay Area scientists agreed that recombination due to delta and omicron coinfection isn’t surprising.
—Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
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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
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And only 10% of patients were estimated to have a bacterial coinfection.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 17 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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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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