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The medical expression ‘opportunistic infection’ may be misleading for it is used in the sense of ‘convenient access’, as in the original Latin root, rather than the later ‘appropriate’ or ‘favourable’.
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Ball, A.P., Gray, J.A., Murdoch, J.M. (1978). Opportunistic Infection. In: Antibacterial Drugs Today. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8004-7_25
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