opportunistically

Examples of opportunistic

opportunistic
The acute state includes patients who are currently suffering from an opportunistic infection.
They include, in fact, both pathogenic and opportunistic microorganisms responsible for various diseases in the host.
Both infants have remained in good health, free of opportunistic infections, growing and developing without protective isolation.
The prolonged period of epithelial disruption leaves the fish open to invasion by opportunistic pathogens.
In these cases, the bees may be opportunistic visitors or facultative pollinators.
Efforts to find empirical evidence of opportunistic business cycles have turned up rather meagre results.
In the 1990s the familiarity of diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infections is expected to have increased.
These observations suggest that ivory gulls are not as opportunistic as other gulls.
The broad, opportunistic carnivorous diet of many serranids has presumably facilitated what we suspect is the dominant process of host-switching.
Changes have propagated through benthic invertebrates, with the macrofauna changing from echinoids and large clams to opportunistic brittle stars and polychaetes.
Assessment of carer needs was subsumed within the patient assessment and was generally an opportunistic rather than a planned activity.
This is clear concerning the daimons, a daimon is more opportunistic (that is, less informative) than a proper action.
Opportunistic political business cycle theories predict a boost in inflation after the election.
Not trusting their employees, principals will be forced to invest in expensive monitoring and sanctioning devices to guard against opportunistic behaviour.
It is a world of boundedly rational and opportunistic actors aiming at the maximization of their utility.
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