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Autoinoculation


Autoinoculation is the process in which cells are removed from a person’s body, medically altered, then reinserted into the same person again.[1]

It is also the process of spreading infections from an infection already found in the body. For example warts and Molluscum contagiosum can be spread by this method [2]

References

References

  1. US National Library of Medicine. URL last accessed September 9, 2006.
  2. American Family Physician.
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