Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun opportunistic_infection

1 sense of opportunistic infection

Sense 1
opportunistic infection -- (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))
       => infection -- (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)