infective
Example Sentences
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Lately, Russian state television channels have been directing renewed streams of infective and smears at the foundation.
From Washington Post
These three could not have triggered the pandemic if they somehow escaped from the lab or infected a researcher, but they show that “gain of function” experiments — making organisms more infective — were ongoing in Wuhan.
From Washington Post
The goal was to see which were more infective.
From Washington Post
A second group of oomycetes in the genus Haptoglossa manufactures infective “harpoon cells.”
From Scientific American
“As the virus mutates, it is important to watch to see if it changes in a way that allows it to be more infective for nonhumans,” Dr. Hungerford said.
From Washington Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
