secondary infections
Follow-on bacterial invasions
Secondary infections are infections that develop after or because of an initial infection, often when the immune system is weakened or tissues are damaged.
A viral respiratory illness might lead to a secondary bacterial pneumonia.
Skin wounds can become secondarily infected.
The flu itself wasn't dangerous, but the secondary infection landed her in the hospital.
- opportunisticExploiting circumstances for gain
- superinfectionNew infection atop another
- germsMicroscopic disease agents
- suppurationPus discharge from infection
- coinfectionMultiple concurrent infections
sepsis · abscess · viral · immunosuppression · bacterial · tuberculosis · peritonitis · protozoan · necrosis · impetigo · immune response · candidiasis · toxoplasmosis · weakened immune system · pneumonia · endoparasites · ectoparasites · infective
- Aftereffectsaftermath, aftershock, fallout, side effects, ripple effect
- illness aftermathlong COVID, sequelae, complication, organ damage, chronic fatigue
- Leprosyleprosy, Hansen's disease, mycobacterium, bacillus, bacilli
- Transplant Complicationsgraft rejection, organ rejection, immunosuppression, organ failure
secondary infectionshealth
Condition of body, mind
immunity · wellness · disease resistance · immunocompetence · sterility
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