| 单词 | infective agent |
| 释义 | infective agent (once / 1181932 pages) n WORD FAMILY infective agent: infective agents USAGE EXAMPLESEarlier this year, Canadian researchers said that they had found the infective agent in dried blood imported from the US. BBC(May 07, 2014) Inflaming pregnant mice artificially — without a living infective agent — prompts behavioral problems in the young. New York Times(Aug 25, 2012) The same formula can be used to redesign other microbes to fight other infective agents, such as the Vibrio cholerae which causes cholera, said Chang. Reuters(Aug 16, 2011) n an agent capable of producing infection Syn|Hypo|Hyper infectious agent virus (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein pathogenany disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism) arborvirus, arbovirusa large heterogeneous group of RNA viruses divisible into groups on the basis of the virions; they have been recovered from arthropods, bats, and rodents; most are borne by arthropods; they are linked by the epidemiologic concept of transmission between vertebrate hosts by arthropod vectors (mosquitoes, ticks, sandflies, midges, etc.) that feed on blood; they can cause mild fevers, hepatitis, hemorrhagic fever, and encephalitis bacteriophage, phagea virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria plant virusa plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA animal virusan animal pathogen that is a virus slow virusa virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before symptoms appear tumor virusa cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm vector(genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell agent an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect |
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