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Infective   /ɪnfˈɛktɪv/   Listen
Infective

adjective
1.
Able to cause disease.  Synonyms: morbific, pathogenic.  "Pathogenic bacteria"
2.
Caused by infection or capable of causing infection.  Synonym: infectious.  "A carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"



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"Infective" Quotes from Famous Books



... there were about half-a-million fresh infections per annum among the soldiers in the British armies alone—about two million men infected altogether at the very least.[E] Some were cured, others patched up; some very badly treated; some not treated at all; many demobilised while in an infective condition, and thus liable to come home and sow in the bodies of clean women the seeds of diseases picked up in foreign lands in moments of excitement and folly. Blame these men if we must, but in all fairness let ...
— Safe Marriage - A Return to Sanity • Ettie A. Rout



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