Definition of Infectious agent

1. Noun. An agent capable of producing infection.

Exact synonyms: Infective Agent
Specialized synonyms: Virus, Pathogen
Generic synonyms: Agent

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infectious Agent

infecteth
infectibility
infectible
infecting
infection
infection-exhaustion psychosis
infection calculus
infection control
infection control nurse
infection control practitioners
infection immunity
infection thread
infections
infectiosity
infectious
infectious agent (current term)
infectious anaemia
infectious arteritis virus of horses
infectious avian bronchitis
infectious bovine keratitis
infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis
infectious bovine rhinotracheitis
infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus
infectious bronchitis virus
infectious bulbar paralysis
infectious bursal disease
infectious bursal disease virus
infectious canine hepatitis
infectious conjunctivitis
infectious coryza

Literary usage of Infectious agent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biosafety in the Laboratory: Prudent Practices for the Handling and Disposal by National Research Council (U. S.) (1989)
"The presence of an infectious agent that is capable of invading and multiplying ... An environment for the infectious agent that functions as a reservoir, ..."

2. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1888)
"It has been proved that the infectious agent in all of the diseases mentioned is a living germ, and that disinfection consists in destroying the vitality of ..."

3. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser (1918)
"... produces a resistance which is "specifically" aimed only at the particular infectious agent with which the original active immunity was produced. ..."

4. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"There is reason to believe that the infectious agent, ... He not only excretes the infectious agent, but may also because of his healthy condition ..."

5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1889)
"On the contrary, everything indicates that, as in the diseases mentioned, in the presence of the infectious agent common predisposing causes relating to the ..."

6. George Miller Sternberg: A Biography by Martha L. Sternberg (1920)
"But yellow fever is by no means the only infectious disease in which satisfactory evidence of the existence of a living infectious agent is still wanting. ..."

7. A Text-book of bacteriology by George Miller Sternberg (1896)
"Here also the infectious agent is only one factor, although an essential one, in the production of the infectious disease. It must be introduced to the ..."

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