viral infection

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An infection caused by a virus. At present, viral infections cannot be treated with antibiotics. (Compare bacterial infection.)

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notes for viral infection

Diseases caused by viral infections include herpes, chicken pox, hepatitis, influenza, and the common cold.

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How to use viral infection in a sentence

Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
That video of you doing all the New York impressions went viral.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The following year, he developed pneumocystis pneumonia—a serious infection associated with HIV and AIDS.
The LGBT Center That Changed Our Lives|Justin Jones|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A fair number explicitly ask for an antibiotic, to cover the possibility that it is “bronchitis” or a “sinus infection.”
Without Education, Antibiotic Resistance Will Be Our Greatest Health Crisis|Russell Saunders|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Brooklyn musician Bobby Shmurda, whose ‘Shmoney Dance’ went viral, was arrested today on ‘gang conspiracy’ charges, police said.
Rapper Bobby Shmurda Arrested at New York’s Notorious Quad Studios|M.L. Nestel|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There is still a general tendency in universities on both sides of the Atlantic to treat propaganda as infection.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Chyluria occurs most frequently as a symptom of infection by Filaria sanguinis hominis.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
A mild degree means that the body is not reacting well, or else that the infection is too slight to call forth much resistance.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Infection in man occurs from ingestion of insufficiently cooked pork, which contains encysted embryos.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Tuberculous pleurisy due to direct extension from the lung may give excess of polymorphonuclears owing to mixed infection.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd