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To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).

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Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.

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To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.

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Her passion for dancing has infected me.

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Infected.

He also believes that human beings may infect rats.

It can't infect humans, can it?

It is inadvisable to explore for a suspected abscess with a hollow needle without first opening the abdomen, as septic fluid might thus be enabled to leak out, and infect the general peritoneal cavity.

Delbrueck chose to use bacteriophage, viruses that infect bacteria and then can multiply very rapidly.

The body fluids which contain enough HIV to infect someone are blood, semen, vaginal fluids including menstrual blood, and breast milk.

See also screen design, scouring velocity Tapeworms Parasites that infect the gut of the fish.

The risk from bird flu is generally low to most people because the viruses occur mainly among birds and do not usually infect humans.

Only 0.5 g of infective material given orally has been found in experiments to be necessary to infect a sheep with BSE.

Increased understanding of the persistence of inoculant strains in field situations and the ability of inoculant strains in field situations and the ability of inoculants to infect intercrop and weed species.

A. mellea and A. ostoyae were also found to infect artificially inoculated docks in field conditions.

The flu virus mutates frequently, changing its genetics, but it rarely goes through the changes that allow it to routinely infect mammals.

When they are five or six they are driven into the public school to infect it with the moral miasma of their lairs.

Given the right conditions, a dose as low as 10 virus particles by intranasal or intramuscular routes can infect young pigs 10.

Influenza A(H5N1) viruses normally circulate among wild birds but can infect poultry and rarely have infected people in the past.

Two or three distinct pig retroviruses can infect some human cells in culture.

The bacteria can then infect the blood and cause secondary septicemia, which could in turn lead to death without treatment.

In spring airborne spores are released which infect susceptible plants.

They seem to be scared stiff that ten or a dozen Bolsheviks will infect the whole world.

The concerns center on the possibility that the H5N1 strain could infect people at a future date and ultimately become transmissible between human beings.

Rain then washes spores from the leaves down into the soil where they can infect the tubers.

Fungal pathogens infect white clover particularly in the colder months of the year.

Among the Hymenoptera are the gall-wasps (Cynips and its allies), which infect the various species of oak.

When the flowers form, however, the mycelium sends hyphae into the young ovaries and rapidly replaces the stores of sugar and starch, &c., which would have gone to make the grain, by the soot-like mass of spores so well known as smut, &c. These spores adhere to the grain, and unless destroyed, by "steeping" or other treatment, are sown with it, and again produce sporidia and yeast-conidia which infect the seedlings.

Staphylococcus aureas has been found to colonize more on individuals with atopic eczema and is the most common pathogen to infect the skin.

Those who could not work just wasted away, they had to be treated as tuberculosis bacilli which could infect a healthy organism.

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Some herpes strains can infect only certain species.

However, since many pets spend a great deal of time outdoors, the numerous other microbes than a pet can attract can easily infect an irritated ear canal.

They often infect the ears of cats, dogs and other animals.

Once this happens, the cat can infect other animals with her bite.

Herpes is the catch-all name for a group of viruses that infect people.

It can be too easy to infect your program with malicious programs.

While often resulting in the loss of teeth, the infection caused by periodontal disease can also enter the bloodstream and infect internal organs, such as the heart, lungs and kidneys, causing serious complications.

According to the Heartworm Society, while heartworms are typically associated with dogs, they can actually infect more than 30 other species of animals including cats, ferrets, foxes and even humans.

There are several other intestinal worms that can infect puppies, which is why it is very important the puppy is dewormed.

The infected stool can infect other puppies and dogs.

The disease is transmittable from mother to child as the protozoa will cross the placenta and infect the fetus.

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Pregnant women should be screened for GBS during the last weeks of pregnancy to help ensure that GBS does not infect their newborns.

There are three known types of polioviruses (called 1, 2, and 3), each causing a different strain of the disease and all being members of the viral family of enteroviruses (viruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract).

Candida also may infect an infant's diaper rash, as it grows rapidly on irritated and moist skin.

Diphtheria is a potentially fatal disease that usually involves the nose, throat, and air passages, but may also infect the skin.

The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus may infect older children and adults.

It is estimated that pinworms infect more than 400,000,000 people throughout the world or approximately 10 percent of humans.

In addition, the herpes virus can infect a cell, and instead of making the cell produce new viruses, it hides inside the cell and waits.

Streptococcal and staphylococcal bacteria are the most common causes of lymphadenitis, although viruses, protozoa, rickettsiae, fungi, and the tuberculosis bacillus can also infect the lymph nodes.

They can infect various parts of the body, especially the skin and mucous membranes.

Bartonella henselae can infect people who are scratched or (more rarely) bitten or licked by a cat.

They are more important for their effect in reducing the period of viral shedding, the period of time in which a person infected with herpes virus can infect other people.

The same causative agents infect both adults and children.