Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 31 compound words that contain infection. The most common are listed below. Open infection in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- urinary tract infectionAn infection that affects part of the urinary tract.
- yeast infectionAny infection by a fungus of the genus Candida; candidiasis
- Virus infection
- Infection control
- Viral infection
- Bacterial infection
- sexually transmitted infectionAny of various infections that are usually contracted through sexual contact, with or without symptoms.
- cross-infectionmutual infection between infected objects, animals, etc
- secondary infectionAny infection that arises subsequent to a pre-existing infection; but especially a nosocomial infection
- Vincent's infectionSynonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis: Medical name of the form of severe gum infection popularly called trench mouth.
- bladder infectionA urinary tract infection.
- self-infectionInfection of an entire organism from a local lesion.
- opportunistic infectionAny infection that causes disease and occurs only when the host's immune system is impaired.
- lytic infectionThe infection of a bacterium by a bacteriophage with subsequent production of more phage particles, and lysis of the cell.
- anti-infectionAlternative form of antiinfection: Preventing or counteracting infection.
- spurious infectionA case in which parasites invade a host but do not succeed in colonizing it, for example merely passing through the digestive tract.
Compound words 31
- transfectionThe introduction of foreign genetic material (such as DNA or RNA) into a eukaryotic cell.
- coinfectionSimultaneous infection by two pathogens (a pair of copathogens), any combination of viruses and/or bacteria; often one infection is a secondary bacterial infection that gets its opportunity from the effects of the (viral or bacterial) …
- infectiologyThe study of infection
- antiinfectionPreventing or counteracting infection.
- autoinfectionThe infection of a primary host with a parasite, particularly a helminth, in such a way that the complete life cycle of the parasite happens in a single organism, without the involvement of another host.
- monoinfectioninfection with a single type of microorganism
- spinfectionViral infection by means of centrifugation.
- agroinfectionviral infection via an agrobacterium
- hydrofectionhydrodynamic infection (of a gene)
- hyperinfectionrepeated reinfection with the larvae of parasites already in the body