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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.

Reaching Geneva in October 1532, Farel (described in a contemporary monastic chronicle as "un chetif malheureux predicant, nomme maistre Guillaume") at once began to preach in a room of his lodging, and soon attracted "un grand nombre de gens qui estoient advertis de sa venue et déjà infects de son heresie."

Amblyomma hebraeum, the bont or variegated tick of the Cape Colonists, infects sheep with the 9porozoon causing "heart-water" sickness, and in Europe sheep are inoculated with the same disease by another tick, Rhipicephalus bursa.

The common sheep-tick (Ixodes vicinus) of England, for example, infects cattle and dogs as well as sheep; and the pathogenetic Ixodidae above mentioned occur parasitically upon other mammals than those to which they convey the diseases specified.

Smut of wheat, Ustilago Tritici, infects the host at the time of flowering.

The fungus infects young canes through wounds which are initially caused by raspberry cane midge attack, late spring frosts or pruning.

This fact sheet provides information on Trichomoniasis (pigeon canker ), which infects approximately 80% of all pigeons.

Viruses from the lung tissue in Toronto patients readily infected monkey kidney cells, and no known human coronavirus infects that cell line.

This group includes canine distemper which infects carnivores, rinderpest which is a disease of artiodactyls and the human measles virus.

The underlying pathophysiology seems to be that E.B.V. specifically infects B cells and then incites a T cell response (atypical lymphocytes ).

A subset of HPVs infects the female genital tract, to induce cervical lesions that can progress to malignancy in some women.

The main type of cell that HIV infects is the T helper lymphocyte.

It also infects adults causing pneumonia (which is often fatal in elderly subjects ).

Toxocara cati is a white roundworm which most frequently infects young kittens, being passed via the mother's milk.

Giardiasis is caused by the protozoan Giardia lamblia which infects the small intestine.

Toxocara cati is a white roundworm which most frequently infects young kittens, being passed via the mother 's milk.

Labor sleaze goes right to the heart of government and infects everything it does.

A second " helper virus " infects the cell to enable this RNA to be packaged into a virion particle.

It is a retrovirus that produces an enzyme that reproduces itself in the cells it infects.

This strain infects the bloodstream and attacks the lining of the digestive tract, bone marrow and cells.

When the protozoa begin a path through the blood stream, they infects the lymph systems as well.

Humans are the only natural host for polioviruses, and it most commonly infects younger children, although older children and adults can be infected.

Mononucleosis occurs when the Epstein-Barr virus infects one specific type of lymphocyte.

It is commonly believed that herpes simplex virus type 1 infects above the waist and herpes simplex virus type 2 infects below the waist.

Parvovirus B19-A virus that commonly infects humans; about 50 percent of all adults have been infected sometime during childhood or adolescence.

Hand-foot-mouth should not be confused with foot and mouth disease, which infects cattle but is extremely rare in humans.

It is now known that HSV-1 often infects children but does not always manifest itself by the creation of cold sores.

Shigella accounts for 10 to 20 percent of all cases of diarrhea worldwide, and in any given year infects over 140 million persons and kills 600,000, mostly children and the elderly.

The reactivated virus further infects nerve cells, causing severe pain, burning, or itching.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, HAV infects up to 200,000 Americans each year with the highest rate of hepatitis A being among children five to 14 years of age.

Astrovirus primarily infects infants, young children, and the elderly.

The rabies virus infects the human nervous system causing acute encephalomyelitis, an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.

In fact, toxin production is related to infections of the bacillus itself with a particular bacteria virus called a phage (from bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria).

Rhinovirus-A group of small RNA viruses that infects the upper respiratory system and causes the common cold.

The last thing in the world you probably want is to get a computer virus that infects your entire system.

A bacteria called P. acnes infects the clogged pores and leads to the production of pus.

The natives, already prone to the immorality which must infect a mixed population living under a hot sun, the immorality which still infects a place like Aden, were not improved by the addition of convicts.