infecteen.
/ɪnˌfɛkˈtiː/, U.S. /ᵻnˌfɛkˈti/ A person who or thing which is infected. Contrasted with infector.
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1827 Oriental Herald 15 214 Unless we greatly misapprehend the meaning of Aristotle..the fomes, or fuel..should, by the rules of analogy, be in the infectee, and not in the infector.
1875 Baltimore Physician & Surgeon 4 17/1 In all contagious or infectious diseases there must pass between infector and infectee something of a specific and particulate nature, although insensible either to vision or chemical reaction.
1897 Lancet 1 May 1197/2 A clear demonstration of the relation between the infector and infectee carries with it a conviction to most minds out of all proportion to its scientific value.
1943 J. A. Reyniers Micrurgical & Germ-free Techniques xi. 263 The transfer of infection from infector to infectee can thus be measured quantitatively.
1988 K. Clarke & M. Potts AIDS Reader iii. 137 Some recent evidence points to 75% or more of all infectees developing AIDS up to 8 years or more after initial HIV infection.
2004 Independent 11 Feb. (Review section) 9/1 When they clicked on the attachment, the infectees' computers should have protected them.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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