infectious particle

collocation in English

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infectious
adjective
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/ɪnˈfek.ʃəs/us
/ɪnˈfek.ʃəs/
(of a disease) able to be passed from one person, animal, or plant ...
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particle
noun
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/ˈpɑː.tɪ.kəl/us
/ˈpɑːr.t̬ə.kəl/
a word or a part of a word that has a grammatical purpose but often has little or ...
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These studies indicated that the scrapie agent is a discreteinfectiousparticlethat can be sedimented at a particular w#t value.
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In the first case, viral capsid proteins spontaneously self-assemble around the genome to make aninfectiousparticle.
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The elementary body is the non-replicatinginfectiousparticlethat is released when infected cells rupture.
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After the elementary body enters the infected cell, an eclipse phase of 20 hours occurs while theinfectiousparticledevelops into a reticulate body.
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All infectious particles rain down equally (whatever their source) on all susceptibles.
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A single ionizing hit normally destroys an entireinfectiousparticle, and the dose needed to hit half the particles depends on the size of the particles.
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Following replication, the newly formed viral genomes leave the nucleus and assemble into infectious particles at the plasma membrane.
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Infectious particles are dispersed only locally (but the rain of particles is nonetheless homogeneous).
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Several new designs have emerged in the global healthcare community for the containment and filtration of potentially infectious particles.
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When manufactured correctly, the vaccine is not infectious, but improper inactivation can result in intact and infectious particles.
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One way around this is to use a functional definition of infectious particles rather than a strict count, such as a plaque forming unit.
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This test tells one the concentration of infectious particles that have the ability to cause infection.
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These conidia are probably the main infectious particles produced by the fungus.
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Infectious particles such as viruses may infect host cells and continue to reside in the cytoplasm of these cells.
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The faeces of an infected person can contain more than 10 trillion infectious particles per gram; fewer than 100 of these are required to transmit infection to another person.
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