infective agent

collocation in English

meaningsofinfectiveandagent

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infective
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈfek.tɪv/us
/ɪnˈfek.tɪv/
relating to or caused by ...
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agent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a person who acts for or ...
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(Definition ofinfectiveandagentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is likely to be the case whether theinfectiveagentis microbial or protozoan.
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This ' reproductive compensation ' reduces selection against the agent causing early mortality (the recessive allele orinfectiveagent) and biases our estimates of historic mortality rates.
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The population is exposed to theinfectiveagentfrom childhood and the level of exposure increases with age, as their outdoor activities become more frequent.
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Those experiments addressed the issue of "weakening" or "attenuating" theinfectiveagent.
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In areas of intense transmission, first infection, and presumably death from theinfectiveagent, occurs at a lower age than in areas of less intense transmission.
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It is not the usual kind ofinfectiveagent, microvirus or bacterium.
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Milk has never been shown to transmit any of the spongiform encephalopathies or to contain theinfectiveagent.
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These tissues are those in which theinfectiveagentmay be present in animals incubating the disease.
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Subsequently, it slowed down the adoption of simple precautionary procedures designed to inactivate theinfectiveagentin meat-and-bone meal.
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Some illnesses appear to be associated with aninfectiveagent.
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The ban will be lifted only if a way can be found of treating such material so that theinfectiveagentis destroyed.
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Theinfectiveagentis not destroyed by normal cooking temperatures and it does not provoke the production of antibodies.
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It ought to be known that living tubercle in milk is aninfectiveagentto a human subject.
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It is incredible that such a viral particle orinfectiveagentshould be so hard to detect by normal diagnostic techniques.
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This included the risk of theinfectiveagentbeing ingested via drinking water.
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That may or may not be aninfectiveagent.
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Around the world, clinicians are trying to identify aninfectiveagentor environmental factors that influence the progress of the disease.
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We still do not understand the nature of theinfectiveagent.
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The rules on removal of those parts of the carcase that can harbour theinfectiveagentare being enforced with great rigour.
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Consumers cannot tell whether a piece of meat may be infected and theinfectiveagentis not destroyed either by being sterilised or in the cooking process.
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