infect
verb (used with object)
to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
noninfected
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a word derived from
infect.
Example Sentences
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A study conducted by the National Institutes of Health, which compared individuals recovered from COVID-19 with noninfected controls, found no significant long-term differences in immune function.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2022
Department of Veterans Affairs data collected from March 1, 2020 through April 6, 2022 on 443,588 patients with one SARS-CoV-2 infection, 40,947 with two or more infections, and 5.3 million noninfected individuals.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022
In mid-February, for example, the State Department overruled the CDC in bringing 14 cruise ship passengers back from Japan who tested positive for the virus on the same plane as noninfected passengers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 29, 2020
In 2011 the researchers asked 34 Toxoplasma-infected students and 134 noninfected students to rate the intensity and pleasantness of urine samples from different animals.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 26, 2015
When Texas fever has broken out, all animals, the sick as well as the healthy, should at once be removed to a noninfected pasture.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
