How to Use infective in a Sentence

infective

adjective

• The list of diseases thought to be caused by infective organisms is growing by the day.
  — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
• The eggs can then mature into a form of the parasite that is infective.
  — Fox News, 11 June 2019
• The Kivu swarm, with its three new lineages of Ebola, may amount to about one or two quadrillion infective particles of the virus.
  — Richard Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
• Those larvae grow and molt in the fly's tissues before reaching an infective stage.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2019
• Vaccines have been the big winners, but there were some gains for anti-infective therapies as well.
  — Peter Bak, STAT, 28 Apr. 2021
• Those infective eggs hatch larvae, the larvae pierce the intestinal wall, and these larvae mainline their way via the blood to the eyes and central nervous system.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2015
• After dogs defecate in the pens, the hookworm eggs hatch, and the larvae eventually molt, reaching their infective stage within five to 10 days.
  — Bradley Van Paridon, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• As the membranes fuse, the virus releases its genes into the cell, which produces billions of copies of the virus; these viral particles in turn break out of the cell and spread to other cells, where the infective process repeats.
  — Scientific American, 12 May 2020
• The only way to interrupt the epidemics is to imagine that every single person, regardless of the test, can be infective.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
• To spread from one dog to another, the larvae have to develop to a specific infective stage inside the mosquito.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 15 June 2019
• That infective ambiance might have been enough to propel a less pointed novel about pregnancy.
  — Talya Zax, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• By sowing the seeds of doubt and denial, anti-vaxxers could influence many people not to get a vaccine, allowing the virus to persist and be persistently infective.
  — Jonathan M. Berman, STAT, 9 Sep. 2020
• The oral solution is an anti-infective used with pediatric patients.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
• The chamomile has a relaxing effect as well as being an antiseptic (anti-infective).
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
• Some recruits were sent to Yerba Buena, but they were not allowed onto the island ferry until a topical anti-infective solution had been sprayed into the upper part of the throat behind the nose.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2020
• Antibodies are powerful anti-infective treatments, but they are generally thought to work best at early stages of the disease.
  — Robert Langreth, Bloomberg.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• But scientists hypothesize that a combination of habitat change, pesticide exposure and the emergence of infective chytrid fungus led to their demise.
  — Douglas Main, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2012
• Toxoplasmosis organisms need time after being passed in the cat’s feces to become infective.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• Kerala's containment of the first wave also means a higher share of its population is without antibodies and therefore vulnerable to the highly-infective Delta variant, says John.
  — Biman Mukherji, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2021
• For preterm and sick babies, human milk — fortified with anti-infective and anti-inflammatory nutrients not found in formula — is an elixir.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2017
• The worm's life cycle from larvae to adult is completed in one host, but the cycle begins anew when that host's infected larvae-bearing tissues are ingested by yet another carnivore, if and only if the infective meat is left raw or undercooked.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2016
• Infected rodents don't last long in the presence of a cat and their consumption ultimately results in a bowel movement that contains thousands of microscopic oocysts, the parasite's infective stage, thus completing the cycle.
  — Author: Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 June 2017
• An animal virus or other infective agent could be transferred to humans, with potentially tragic results – not just for the person who received the organ but for other people, who could subsequently be infected.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2010
• Such a vaccine could carry a non-infective blueprint of the coronavirus protein, triggering the production of antibodies that would give the person getting vaccinated immunity from the disease.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
• Disease relies on a variety of pestiferous vectors for the transmission of infective bacteria.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
• The company is building technology to help discover anti-infective drugs.
  — Casey Ross, STAT, 10 Mar. 2022
• Antimicrobial resistance — the process by which bacteria, fungi, and other microbes become immune to the effects of drugs designed to kill them — happens every time someone takes an antibiotic or other anti-infective drug.
  — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 8 Apr. 2021
• Cidara Therapeutics is offering $120 million in stock, the anti-infective drug developer said Monday.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 May 2018
• Much as for antibiotics, the commercial market for anti-infective antibodies has essentially failed.
  — Laura Defrancesco, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
• Coronaviruses in general rely on electrostatic interactions to assemble themselves into an infective form and attach to a host.
  — Eric Litke, USA TODAY, 30 May 2020

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024