INFECT


Meaning of INFECT in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be infected with a virus

Thousands of people may already be infected with the virus.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

already

The motivation of the already infected is altruism, the desire not to infect others.

■ NOUN

aids

She slowly choked to death, a combination of tuberculosis and laryngitis-two of the diseases that infect Aids patients.

animal

When the blisters burst, they release virus particles that infect healthy animals .

No one knows how humans even become infected with the animal virus.

The rate at which infected animals were being killed was accelerating, Prof King said.

This had been cut to 1.5 days or better for infected animals .

To be sure, scientists have created disease by inoculating animals with brain tissue from infected animals.

Before a virus can infect an animal cell it must first bind to specific receptor molecules embedded in the cell membrane.

But the number of infected animals has been declining in recent years.

blood

And he adds that trace levels of plasminogen would have been present in the products made from the infected donor's blood .

cell

After release, viruses remain inactive until they come into contact with and infect another cell .

Viral infectiousness is defined as the ability of a virus to enter and infect a cell in the target host.

They then put the infected cells back into the babies without giving any drug treatment.

The cells destroy infected cells early, before they produce virus, thereby inhibiting viral replication, the company said.

Before a virus can infect an animal cell it must first bind to specific receptor molecules embedded in the cell membrane.

In this case, patients need only be treated until the last of the infected cells is eliminated.

child

Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.

An infected female who becomes pregnant could infect her unborn child .

disease

The result is 50,000 children a year infected with the disease .

Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.

When measured against the suffering of people infected with a lethal disease , this point sounds abstract, even callous.

I enjoy infecting her with my diseases and then paying her doctor bills.

Poppy's mouth had infected me with a disease of wanting and that was all I knew.

At the beginning of an epidemic only a few individuals are infected , so the disease spreads fairly slowly.

man

It has been estimated that in the early eighties the average infected gay man infected an average of five additional gay men.

What went largely unreported, however, was the fact that most of the people getting infected were gay men .

The profile of this population was generally quite different from that of infected homosexual men .

million

Subtype E already has infected at least 15 million heterosexual men, women and children.

partner

Partner A may infect partner B, but things will end there.

patient

Perrin determined that all of the infected patients had received injections while in hospital in Benghazi.

She slowly choked to death, a combination of tuberculosis and laryngitis-two of the diseases that infect Aids patients .

Thus, only 23 of the 50 co-infected patients were included.

people

These can get into food or water, especially in countries with poor sanitary facilities, and thus infect other people .

Few recently infected people have received the experimental drug mixes, Volberding said.

Tom has infected at least 6 people - thought he has never even met Jane, Mark and Alan.

person

During that interim, the infected person would not yet have enough antibodies for the test to register.

This can happen with sexually transmitted diseases only if the average infected person infects more than one other person.

From 1985 through 1992, 297 infected persons were identified in 27 states.

tuberculosis

Two of the four specimens known to be infected with M tuberculosis were positive in the controlled experiment.

virus

When the blisters burst, they release virus particles that infect healthy animals.

Viral infectiousness is defined as the ability of a virus to enter and infect a cell in the target host.

A macro virus spreads by infecting Microsoft Word or Excel documents.

They said there needed to be more research done, especially on people recently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus .

An acupuncturist at the clinic was found to be carrying the virus , which infects the liver.

In 1988, the virus had infected one out of every sixty-one babies born in New York State.

Before a virus can infect an animal cell it must first bind to specific receptor molecules embedded in the cell membrane.

woman

The third method is maternal transmission between an infected and pregnant woman and her unborn child.

■ VERB

become

Every day, 14,000 more become infected .

Among blacks in the sample, 14.7 percent were becoming infected each year.

Itching can be intense, and there may be a visible rash, which can become secondarily infected by bacteria.

So, it might still be possible for these people to become infected .

Dennis was 23 when the 300-acre farm-a family home for two centuries-\#became infected in 1967.

Mink tissue also would be prohibited from feed because minks also can become infected .

No one knows how humans even become infected with the animal virus.

They also can attack a healthy person who might become infected through a foot wound, for example.

spread

A macro virus spreads by infecting Microsoft Word or Excel documents.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The book may infect you with a passion for mountain climbing.

The fruits were infected by a fungus disease called brown rot.

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