- secondary chemoprophylaxis
- prophylactic use of a chemotherapeutic agent in an individual after infection has occurred (with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, for example) but before disease has become manifest.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
secondary chemoprophylaxis
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