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infective::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | infectious |
| Derivation | infect |
viruses and other infective agents.
a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease.
infective::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | morbific, pathogenic |
| Derivation | infect |
infective agents.
Examples of infective
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These infective oocysts can persist for months in the environment outside a host.
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They run their infective course, do little damage and then look for another host.
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Microsporidiosis is a disease caused by highly infective parasitic microsporidian.
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The vaccine contains only a small, non-infective portion of the rabies virus.
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Prions are thus infective and heritable without containing DNA or RNA as viruses do.
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Prions are proteins that can change into a self-perpetuating infective form.
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Each cell then divides multiple times to produce up to 1000 more infective organisms.
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These insights may drive new strategies for anti-infective discovery and development.
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They drew up a consensus protocol for the specific management of infective endocarditis.
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- Able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria"
- Infectious: caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"
- In epidemiology, infectivity refers to the ability of a pathogen to establish an infection. More specifically, infectivity is a pathogen's capacity for horizontal transmission that is, how frequently it spreads among hosts that are not in a parent-child relationship. ...
- (Infectivity) is a measure of the ability of a disease agent to establish itself in the host. This term can be used qualitatively, when an agent is referred to as being of low, medium or high infectivity, or quantitatively. ...
- Of an agent of inoculation, capable of transmitting inoculum. (20)
- Referring to an organism or virus able to attack a host and cause infection; referring to a vector carrying or containing a pathogen and able to transfer it to a host plant, causing infection.
