Usually means: Resistant to multiple types of antibiotics.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pluriresistant)

▸ adjective:  (medicine) Multiresistant.

Similar:
multiresistant, pentaresistant, polyresistant, panresistant, monoresistant, pharmacoresistant, multiantimicrobial, polyantibiotic, chemoresistant, multiantibiotic, more...

Opposite:
panresistant, susceptible, sensitive

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Similar:
multiresistant, pentaresistant, polyresistant, panresistant, monoresistant, pharmacoresistant, multiantimicrobial, polyantibiotic, chemoresistant, multiantibiotic, more...

Opposite:
panresistant, susceptible, sensitive



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