infective
Example Sentences
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"It is certainly not as infective as say flu or COVID-19, and requires often fairly prolonged close contact before transmission takes place," said Andrew Lee, Professor of Public Health at the University of Sheffield.
From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026
Dr Henney said that previous imaging and test results suggested "the infective endocarditis was not present during the first admission."
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025
CJD is the most prominent of the handful of diseases, all fatal, that result when prions, proteins of uncertain function that are abundant in the brain, misfold into an infective form that spreads widely.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 21, 2024
They looked for national trends in deaths caused by infective endocarditis, plus differences in deaths related to age, sex, race and geography among states from 1999-2020.
From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023
Tom had discovered that five-day-old Marburg-virus particles are just as lethal and infective as fresh particles.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
