WordNet
n. an agent capable of producing infection [syn: infectious agent]
Usage examples of "infective agent".
They can't even build a gene spinner, let alone decode a homoeobox, but they slaughtered enough seniles that they found the infective agent for sponge-brain syndrome.
The severity of the initial symptoms suggests that they all received an overwhelming dose of the infective agent.
In sick amazement Donald envisaged himself as the carrier of a new and strange disease: the infective agent for riot and slaughter.
It seemed possible there was an infective agent in the claw and teeth wounds made by the alien, with which the ship's medicines were having trouble coping.
But it is statistically more probable that he has been exposed to a particularly potent infective agent --- a John Wesley, a Jim Jones or a St.
It might be caused by some infective agent encountered on Bronson Beta.