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Descriptor English: Superinfection
Descriptor Spanish: Sobreinfección
Descriptor sobreinfección
Entry term(s) sobreinfección microbiana
superinfección
Scope note: Complicación frecuente del tratamiento farmacológico de las infecciones microbianas. Puede producirse por colonización oportunista tras la inmunosupresión producida por el microorganismo patógeno primario y puede ser influida por el intervalo de tiempo entre las infecciones, la fisiología microbiana o la resistencia del huésped. A veces las pruebas de provocación experimental y los modelos in vitro se utilizan en estudios de virulencia e infectividad.
Descriptor Portuguese: Superinfecção
Descriptor French: Surinfection
Entry term(s): Microbial Superinvasion
Microbial Superinvasions
Superinfections
Superinvasion, Microbial
Superinvasions, Microbial
Tree number(s): C01.597.880
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015163
Scope note: A frequent complication of drug therapy for microbial infection. It may result from opportunistic colonization following immunosuppression by the primary pathogen and can be influenced by the time interval between infections, microbial physiology, or host resistance. Experimental challenge and in vitro models are sometimes used in virulence and infectivity studies.
Annotation: opportunistic infect; IM; coord with specific infect (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Cell Line (1969-1988)
Cells, Cultured (1974-1988)
Drug Resistance, Microbial (1966-1988)
Tissue Culture (1967-1980)
Public MeSH Note: 1989
History Note: 1989
Entry Version: SUPERINFECT
Related: Viral Interference MeSH
DeCS ID: 23844
Unique ID: D015163
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1989/01/01
Date of Entry: 1988/04/06
Revision Date: 1999/12/16
Superinfection - Preferred
Concept UI M0023304
Scope note A frequent complication of drug therapy for microbial infection. It may result from opportunistic colonization following immunosuppression by the primary pathogen and can be influenced by the time interval between infections, microbial physiology, or host resistance. Experimental challenge and in vitro models are sometimes used in virulence and infectivity studies.
Preferred term Superinfection
Entry term(s) Microbial Superinvasion
Microbial Superinvasions
Superinfections
Superinvasion, Microbial
Superinvasions, Microbial



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