What is "infectious agent"

Usage examples of "infectious agent".

Austen did not think that an infectious agent would cause any but the most subtle sign of illness during thirty hours or so.

I can't think of any drug or poison or infectious agent that would cause the symptoms these patients had.

Then there would be the question of transmission of the illness, which might lead to the infectious agent.

He thought to himself that he had just learned something very valuable indeed: the size of the infectious agent.

Finally, in 1982, Prusiner proposed that the infectious agent for scrapie and related diseases consists exclusively of protein.

Soon afterwards, Prusiner and his co-workers discovered a protein that seemed to be present always in the infectious agent for scrapie.

Books, coins, toilets, soiled dressings, food and many other things can be a reservoir for an infectious agent.

Madoba-2 was the most deadly virus imaginable, an infectious agent so terrible that it had to be guarded by multiple layers of security and touched only by highly trained staff in isolation clothing.

He occupied an airtight chamber with positive pressure that no infectious agent could penetrate.

How could Irulan think an infectious agent would succeed against the immunological barriers which protected an Atreides?