How to Use noninfectious in a Sentence
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That’s not to say that noninfectious infections aren’t still important to track.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
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Ileana Arias, the acting deputy director for noninfectious diseases at CDC, said.
—Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2019
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The international campaign has a second battle to fight in Africa, where a strain of the noninfectious virus used in the oral vaccine has mutated back to infectiousness.
—Maryn McKenna, Wired, 25 Aug. 2021
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Another is to use noninfectious viral components such as the proteins used for flu vaccines.
—Matthew Woodruff, The Conversation, 8 Mar. 2021
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While the push for money for the project began years before covid-19, Gehrig said hospital staff members learned how to separate infectious and noninfectious patients.
—Max Bryan, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2021
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However, as the antigens in the vaccine are derived from weakened or noninfectious material from the virus, there is little risk of severe infection.
—Maitreyi Shivkumar, CNN, 2 Oct. 2020
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By the mid-1960s, most sanatoriums were shut down as patients receiving new, effective drugs soon became noninfectious.
—Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 10 May 2019
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When volunteers are injected with these particles, their cells use the mRNA to reconstruct a noninfectious fragment of the virus, allowing their immune system to prepare antibodies that neutralize it.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2020
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Folliculitis happens when noninfectious bacteria cause inflammation in your hair follicles, producing bumps that can look a lot like acne.
—Jessica Toscano, SELF, 7 June 2022
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This kind of behavior, alternating between being super infectious and fairly noninfectious, is exactly what k captures, and what focusing solely on R hides.
—Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
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Virus preparations pure enough to crystallize usually provide the best material for chemical studies, allowing scientists to split the poliovirus into infectious and noninfectious parts and lay the groundwork for development of the polio vaccine.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
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And nearly one in five developed a potentially fatal lung condition known as noninfectious pneumonitis — the condition Preston-Martin developed.
—John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
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The German researchers note several studies have proved dogs’ ability to detect infectious and noninfectious diseases, like cancer, malaria, and bacterial and viral infections with usually high rates of sensitivity and specificity.
—Nancy Clanton, ajc, 30 July 2020
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For instance, the mRNA vaccines ferry genetic information encoding noninfectious spike protein into cells.
—Denise Roland, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
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Four serious adverse events follow this arc, according to data taken directly from Vaers: low platelets (thrombocytopenia); noninfectious myocarditis, or heart inflammation, especially for those under 30; deep-vein thrombosis; and death.
—Joseph A. Ladapo and Harvey A. Risch, WSJ, 22 June 2021
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The mRNA vaccines can leapfrog the hurdles of developing traditional vaccines such as producing noninfectious viruses, or producing viral proteins at medically demanding levels of purity.
—Sanjay Mishra, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2020
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Recent studies found that vaccination reduced asymptomatic infection more than 80% when compared to unvaccinated individuals and nasal viral loads are low and potentially noninfectious, says Dr. Gandhi.
—Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
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The lack of progress is especially disheartening considering that H.I.V. medications, when properly administered, render patients almost totally noninfectious.
—Christopher Glazek, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
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