What does infective mean?
Infective means Able to cause infection; infectious.
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/ɪnˈfɛktɪv/ · adjective
Able to cause infection; infectious.
Hirsch has followed a group of 85 health care workers who were exposed to blood and bodily fluids of persons with AIDS. Thirty had been exposed by accidentally sticking themselves with needles containing blood and three had been spattered or had an open wound exposed to potentially infective blood.
It is evident that the greater the number of susceptibles, then the greater the increase in the number of infectives.
Use infective when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Infective means Able to cause infection; infectious.
Common synonyms include infectious, pathogenic, morbific, unhealthful.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Hirsch has followed a group of 85 health care workers who were exposed to blood and bodily fluids of persons with AIDS. Thirty had been exposed by accidentally sticking themselves with needles containing blood and three had been spattered or had an open wound exposed to potentially infective blood.
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