How To Use infectious agent In A Sentence
- They suggested that such "spongiform" brain disorders were caused not by conventional agents such as viruses and bacteria, but a novel type of infectious agent: a rogue protein. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Must my rejected bag secretly be destroyed to prevent the spread of infectious agents?
- Better understanding of animal reservoirs and vectors of infectious agents is important in anticipating and controlling emerging infections.
- The crowded conditions they lived in were ideal for passing on an infectious agent.
- Prions are special proteins believed to be the infectious agents responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a group of rare, fatal disorders that slowly destroy the brain and nervous system.
- The crowded conditions they lived in were ideal for passing on an infectious agent.
- In theory, a flu pandemic might be contained in its early stages by performing "ring prophylaxis" -- aggressively using antiflu drugs, vaccines and quarantines to isolate relatively small outbreaks of the new infectious agent. Understanding Swine Flu
- Without antiviral drugs or a real understanding of the infectious agent (scientists argued for years over whether bacillus influenzae was the etiological agent of the 1918 flu pandemic, until a "filterable virus" was eventually determined to be the cause), patients were basically on their own against the disease, and the only useful response was a public health one. Sunday, Flu-ey Sunday
- an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival
- MPs poured out of the Commons potentially spreading any infectious agent.
