Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 18 compound words that contain infections. The most common are listed below. Open infections in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- Virus infections
- opportunistic infectionsplural of opportunistic infection: Any infection that causes disease and occurs only when the host's immune system is impaired.
- yeast infectionsplural of yeast infection: Any infection by a fungus of the genus Candida; candidiasis
- Bacterial Infections
- Ear Infections
- Respiratory infections
- Viral Infections
- urinary tract infectionsplural of urinary tract infection: An infection that affects part of the urinary tract.
- sexually transmitted infectionsplural of sexually transmitted infection: Any of various infections that are usually contracted through sexual contact, with or without symptoms.
- bladder infectionsplural of bladder infection: A urinary tract infection.
- cross-infectionsplural of cross-infection: mutual infection between infected objects, animals, etc
- secondary infectionsplural of secondary infection: Any infection that arises subsequent to a pre-existing infection; but especially a nosocomial infection
- spurious infectionsplural of spurious infection: A case in which parasites invade a host but do not succeed in colonizing it, for example merely passing through the digestive tract.
- lytic infectionsplural of lytic infection: The infection of a bacterium by a bacteriophage with subsequent production of more phage particles, and lysis of the cell.
Compound words 18
- monoinfectionsplural of monoinfection: infection with a single type of microorganism
- agroinfectionsplural of agroinfection: viral infection via an agrobacterium
- autoinfectionsplural of autoinfection: The 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.
- disinfectionsplural of disinfection: Treatment with disinfectant materials in order to destroy harmful microorganisms.
- microinfectionsplural of microinfection: infection by a microorganism
- neuroinfectionsplural of neuroinfection: A neurological infection
- parainfectionsplural of parainfection: A condition resembling an infection but not caused by an infectious agent.
- postinfectionsplural of postinfection: Occurring after an infection
- preinfectionsplural of preinfection: infection prior to another process
- primoinfectionsplural of primoinfection: The first stages of an infection.