infectiousness

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being infectious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

disease venom condition communication carrier infection poison abbreviation condensation infective ailment contagion malignancy taint vector

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Antonyms

treatment respect drug favor medicine therapy

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Examples

Imagine this nightmare scenario: a communicable form of anthrax—a germ with the infectiousness of SARS and the killing power of anthrax—is unleashed through infected air travelers. Source: Internet

The tertiary contagions in South Korea are a warning that the virus may have mutated and the infectiousness of MERS may have become stronger," said Li Chufang, an associate researcher at the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. Source: Internet

In case of people who are severely to critically ill or have severe immunocompromise, the infectiousness likely ends within 20 days of the onset of symptoms. Source: Internet

News broke yesterday that a French researcher, supposedly well respected, found that hydroxychloroquine rapidly reduced the infectiousness of coronavirus patients. Source: Internet

“Some of the (early) reporting from China was not clear about the scale, the nature, the infectiousness of this,” he said. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

infectious respiratory disease infectious virus infectiously infective infective agent infectiveness