8 sentences with 'infectious'
Example sentences and phrases with the word infectious and other words derived from it.
• « Traces of infectious diseases and, to a lesser extent, traces of tumour diseases were found in almost all pre- and protohistoric skeletal remains. »
• « A century later, the French physician Louis Pasteur, with his valuable work on infectious diseases, was to initiate a discipline vital to human well-being: immunology. »
• « Rubella is an infectious, contagious, epidemic disease characterised by a measles-like rash and lymph node infarctions. »
• « A virus is a microscopic infectious agent one hundredth the size of the smallest bacterium. Viruses cause disorders ranging from colds to rabies. »
• « Other scientists followed his example and, by the end of the century, deaths in Europe from infectious diseases were reduced by sixty per cent, mainly thanks to improvements in hygiene (antibiotics would not be developed until the late 1920s). »
• « This note aims to communicate the need for a return to preventive and rigorous hygiene in the home, fighting against the return of infectious diseases. »
• « A clean home is not necessarily a healthy home; regular disinfection is necessary to protect the family from infectious diseases. »
• « His father thought he had contracted some strange infectious disease during his trip to the Middle East, but to be on the safe side, he took him to his family doctor, who referred him to a specialist. »