opportunistic infection

1. 1.

   any infection caused by a microorganism that does not normally cause disease in humans; occurs in persons with abnormally functioning immune systems (as AIDS patients or transplant patients receiving immunosuppressive drugs)

   Broaderinfection

   Narroweraspergillosis

Questions about opportunistic infection

What does opportunistic infection mean?

opportunistic infection means "any infection caused by a microorganism that does not normally cause disease in humans; occurs in persons with abnormally functioning immune systems (as AIDS patients or transplant patients receiving immunosuppressive drugs)".

Is opportunistic infection a common word?

opportunistic infection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.