Reinfection

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Another infection, another instance of being infected

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"A second trial involving another sporozoite vaccine, weakened by radiation, was carried out in Mali. It tested whether the vaccine prevented reinfection among people who had already been exposed to malaria."

Etymology

From re- + infection.

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