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Synonyms for infective
ɪnˈfɛk tɪvin·fec·tive
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Princeton's WordNet
infective, morbific, pathogenicadjective
able to cause disease
"infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria"
Synonyms:
infectious, morbific, pathogenicAntonyms:
antiseptic, healthfulinfectious, infectiveadjective
caused by infection or capable of causing infection
"viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"
Synonyms:
infectious, morbific, pathogenicAntonyms:
healthful, antiseptic
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How to use infective in a sentence?
These gene jockeys have put in a furin site into a virus that didn't have one in the laboratory, eleven out of 11 times it makes it more effective, more transmissible, more lethal -- all the bad things you'd want. So if you want to juice up a virus and make it more infective or make it go from bats to humans, putting in a furin cleavage site is a great idea.
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