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Definition of Infectious agent
1. Noun. An agent capable of producing infection.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infectious Agent
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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