Infective Agent (Noun)
Meaning
An agent capable of producing infection.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
Examples
- The newly identified virus is considered an infective agent in the latest outbreak of pneumonia in Asia.
- To stop the spread of disease, researchers isolated the infective agent responsible for the contagion and began to study it in depth.
- Exposure to contaminated food can transfer the infective agent of hepatitis directly to humans through fecal-oral contact.
- Flies, especially in dense residential areas, have become increasingly considered a likely carrier for several potentially hazardous infective agents, requiring consistent disinfection routines in crowded food market spaces.
- Quarantine teams examined lab evidence which indicates anthrax has acted as an especially threatening and common type infective agent around nearby endangered districts with overdrawn containment breach susceptibility throughout July this past summer season 2005.scalablytyped