It’s known as a coinfection, and in previous flu pandemics pneumonia has been a leading factor in deaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumonia vaccine may help prevent swine flu complications] Reference

Infection with both pneumonia and influenza is called a coinfection, and a recent study found it’s likely to be an important contributing factor in some of the deaths that have occurred so far from the swine flu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flu vaccine FAQs: Pneumonia vaccine can help prevent flu complications] Reference

The note caused widespread concern because it described an AIDS virus altered by coinfection with a mouse leukemia virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynn Margulis: "Definitely a Darwinist" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Along with the vaccines for the flu, a pnuemoccocal vaccine can help to reduce your risk of coinfection and severe illness this flu season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumonia vaccine may help prevent swine flu complications] Reference

For reasons that are poorly understood, coinfection can cause a lightning-fast decline in health, especially if the TB strain is resistant to frontline antibiotics.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In areas of endemicity, coinfection with Borrelia microti or the Ehrlichia species that causes human granulocytic ehrlichiosis HGE may explain persistent symptoms for a small number of these patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

For all I know, it was a coinfection such as mycoplasma or chlamydia pneumoniae or even some kind of ehrlichiosis that my body was able to clear on its own, although I never tested remotely positive for ehrlichiosis, or some kind of post-infection autoimmune reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sitemeter Loves Me] Reference

C. elegans-A. baumannii-C. albicans coinfection model to screen an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue] Reference

HIVInsite provides detailed information about coinfection with HIV and tuberculosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Medicine: New Articles] Reference

Finally, there weren't enough participants to assess rates of HIV and HSV-2 coinfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicaid and Medicare] Reference

The first new study sheds light on the immunological response to coinfection with HBV and HCV.    From Wordnik.com.  [Infection Control Today Articles] Reference

Slow clinical response may indicate incorrect diagnosis, coinfection with HIM or resistant organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

In vitro coinfection assays in planktonic and biofilm environments supported the inhibitory effects of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue] Reference

Failure to adequately address HIV/tuberculosis coinfection is "undermining" recent gains against HIV.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

People with HIV/tuberculosis coinfection who began antiretroviral treatment within six months of sta.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

Somatic cell gene transfer has permitted inducible gene expression in vivo through coinfection of multiple viruses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

The book "Evolutionary Dynamics" suggest that viral coinfection selects for both maximum virulence and infectivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Furthermore the complex coinfection of H5N1 and H3N2 in a human would produce natural selection pressure for maximum virulence.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Background The rates of death are high among patients with coinfection with tuberculosis and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Viread should only be used as part of an appropriate antiretroviral combination regimen in HIV-infected patients with or without HBV coinfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nachrichten Ticker - www.finanzen.net] Reference

Background Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading and serious coinfection in adults with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, particularly in Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

The presence of both EBV and JCV genome sequences suggests the relevance of EBV and JCV coinfection in the pathogenesis of this rare form of B-cell lymphoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

A large fraction of the patients (38%) had evidence of bacterial coinfection, the researchers found, suggesting that antibiotic therapy might have clinical value.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

So while it's exciting that dolphins can provide a unique window into the role of coinfection in human cervical cancer, we can't rule out that the next high risk virus, such as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

An estimated 92 children die annually in the United States from regular influenza, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and some of those deaths have been associated with coinfection with MRSA.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buffalo News: Home] Reference

HIV-positive patients with unrecognised or inadequately treated MDR TB coinfection may be highly infectious, and effective TB infection control measures are essential to prevent health care facilities from disseminating drug-resistant TB.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Medicine: New Articles] Reference

Currently, Peregrine's bavituximab is being evaluated in combination with chemotherapy in multiple Phase II trials in non-small cell lung cancer and advanced breast cancer, as well as a Phase Ib trial for hepatitis C virus HCV and HIV coinfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peregrine Announces Initiation of Phase I/II Investigator-Sponsored Trial in Liver Cancer - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

2006 IDSA guidelines made Lyme and coinfection testing MANDATORY for non-rash cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference

4 of the 14 have received money from Lyme or coinfection test kit manufacturers, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference

Earlier in this year’s swine flu outbreak, some studies indicated that coinfection with pneumonia for the H1N1 virus was rare, but a new study of the autopsies of 77 patients who died from the swine flu found that 29 percent had coinfections of bacterial pneumonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumonia vaccine may help prevent swine flu complications] Reference

Infection has been associated with HIV coinfection, multiple partners, and recreational drug use. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

So while it's exciting that dolphins can provide a unique window into the role of coinfection in human cervical cancer, we can't rule out that the next high risk virus, such as SARS, or West Nile, might actually come from the marine environment. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Although S. pneumoniae was not sufficiently abundant to conclude a coinfection with A/H1N1/2009, the severity of the A/H1N1/2009 infection could be correlated with.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference