INFECTIOUS AGENT

Domain	Definition
Environment	Any organism, such as a pathogenic virus, parasite, or or bacterium, that is capable of invading body tissues, multiplying, and causing disease. (references)
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Crosswords: INFECTIOUS AGENT

English words defined with "INFECTIOUS AGENT": virus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "INFECTIOUS AGENT": Enteritis, Transmissible, of Turkeys, Equipment Contamination ♦ non-A non-B hepatitis ♦ Vasculitis, Hypersensitivity. (references)

Photo Album: INFECTIOUS AGENT

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Listeria monocytogenes is the infectious agent responsible for the food borne illness Listeriosis. In the United States, an estimated 2,500 persons become seriously ill with listeriosis each year. Of these, 500 die. Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: INFECTIOUS AGENT

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Coxiella burnetii is a highly infectious agent that is rather resistant to heat and drying. (references)
		So for years researchers have sought a virus or other infectious agent in Alzheimer's disease. (references)
		Any infectious agent that is present in the blood of a donor at the time of donation is potentially transmissible to a susceptible recipient. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: INFECTIOUS AGENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Anagrams: INFECTIOUS AGENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-g-i-i-n-n-o-s-t-t-u"
	-4 letters: festinating, fungistatic, fustigation, infestation, outfeasting, sinfonietta.
	-5 letters: ancientest, auctioning, austenitic, autogenies, cautioning, contesting, continuate, cotangents, enunciates, eugenicist, factitious, fugacities, geneticist, incautions, incogitant, incognitas, infections, infectious, insouciant, isoantigen, negotiants, negotiates, outfasting, sectioning, sonicating, stationing, stoutening, suctioning, tangencies, tenacities, tetanising.
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