primoinfection
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Noun[edit]
primoinfection (plural primoinfections)
- (virology) The first stages of an infection.
- 2013 July 10, Heike Seifert et al., “Not your usual diarrhoea: severe colonic toxicity of mycophenolate due to intestinal CMV and EBV infection”, in BMJ Case Reports[1], volume 2013, :
- We report a case of a 52-year-old woman, on immunosuppressive treatment with mycophenolate due to a history of giant cell myocarditis (GCM), who presented with new-onset severe blood-tinged diarrhoea after a cytomegalovirus (CMV) primoinfection.