The word
"infective" means something that has the ability to cause an infection or spread a disease.
Full definition
It is generally assumed that horses housed in barns with manure collected every day or two from the stalls are not at risk of ingesting
infective larvae of internal parasites (cyathostomines) unless they are turned out on pasture.
The Centers for Disease Control states that if conditions are right, eggs can develop into
infective stage larvae in as few as five days.
Microfilariae can not
become infective larvae without first passing through a mosquito.
The parasite lives inside a mosquito, and develops
into infective larvae in 10 to 14 days.
According to some sources, the larvae can exist in the soil and remain
infective for months.
The goals of treating tapeworms are to remove adult worms from the gastrointestinal tract, eliminate shedding of
infective eggs and larvae, and prevent cycles of re-infection.
Contaminated hairs and skin debris shed into the environment
remain infective for over a year, and act as a reservoir for reinfection.
Classic article from 1960: Research on animal and human disease are forcing biologists to consider a hitherto unsuspected class of infective agents
2) gardening without gloves — feral cats passing
infective organism in their feces is another common way people can be infected.
Heartworm disease is spread through mosquitoes; so when a mosquito carrying
infective heartworm larvae bites a dog (or other pet), it transmits the infection.
This systematic review and meta - analysis evaluates the association of vegetation size greater than 10 mm with emobolic events in patients with
infective endocarditis.
It is spread by direct contact and fomites, and a sneeze will
carry infective virus approximately 4 feet!
Infected animals
shed infective eggs in their feces that are ingested by routine sniffing behavior, direct ingestion of feces, or the sharing of a litter box.
Cats with these regressive infections carry FeLV DNA in their bone marrow, and although they are
not infective for other cats during this stage of infection, the virus may be reactivated at some time in the future, at which point they may begin to show clinical signs and become a source of infection for other cats.
Remember that even once he's gotten well, he may continue to shed
infective virus for some time.
Ringworm is transmitted by direct contact with an infected animal or contact with an item that is contaminated
with infective fungal spores.
Cats and dogs can also become infected by licking and / or eating grass and dirt and other soiled items that
contain infective eggs or by eating prey animals that have already been infected.
Dogs can become infected either by
ingesting infective eggs in the same way as roundworms through the environment or the tiny larvae can burrow into the skin.
This meant that potentially highly
infective material could have been entering the human food chain for six years after the ban designed to prevent it was introduced.
Larvae are released
from infective eggs, burrow through the intestinal wall, move through the dog's liver and lungs, are coughed up, swallowed and mature within the small intestine.
Since it is the mold form that releases
infective spores through the air, you can not get blastomycosis from the air around your dog who is infected with the yeast form of the fungus.
Most healthy dogs and cats do not carry
infective fungal spores on their skin or hair.
Doctors across the country are increasingly worried about the rise of bacterial infections attacking the heart valves of IV drug users — a condition known
as infective endocarditis.
«New trick up their sleeve: In a first - of - its - kind discovery, bacteria found to form
potentially infective prions.»
[14, 15] It's generally thought that oocysts (the mature,
infective form of the parasite) are transferred from soil contaminated with infected feces to coastal waterways by way of freshwater run - off.
It is more virulent,
more infective, and is the cause of the majority of HIV infections globally.
However the trends in population and pollution are not at all encouraging whilst the improvements in general violence, incidence of untreatable life altering or shortening diseases (notably of
infective aetiology) and short survival due to disease, accident, poor nutrition etc have been (hitherto but not necessarily permanently) colossal.
Be careful though not to walk your young puppy in places where he can catch
infective diseases, at least until he has completed his whole vaccination series.
Humans may accidentally
consume infective roundworm eggs, which can lead to the development of a zoonotic disease affecting the eye, brain and / or other organs.
The mosquito is now
highly infective, primed and ready to transmit the larvae the next time it bites an animal.
Herpes virus causes lesions around the mouth, and genital parts and these lesions are
very infective when one comes into direct contact with them.
«A submicroscopic
infective particle which is able to multiply within the cells of a host organism.»
The goal is to intervene at two different stages — first, to help prevent mosquitoes from feeding on microfilaremic dogs and wild canids, and second, to prevent infected mosquitoes from biting dogs, cats or ferrets and
transmitting infective larvae.
Both kittens and adult cats may become infected by swallowing eggs that contain
infective roundworm larvae.
Keep in mind that heartworm preventatives work by
killing infective larvae from mosquitoes that have already bitten your dog.
In a cat that does have Toxoplasmosis, the eggs that are laid in the environment (litter pan) do not become
infective until 24 hours have passed.
«In addition, higher temperatures support faster development of the malaria parasite within the mosquito, increasing the probability that vectors will become
infective before they die.»
Humans may be a temporary host for food - poisoning germs or
other infective agents.
While mites can live off of a host for days to weeks depending on their life stage, they are
only infective for 36 hours which means that environmental decontamination is generally not necessary.
Ozil is top technical brilliant player in his position, though he is get older he still gonna be
infective unless Morinho turns him to another mikhtanyah with his tactics, but i woun't want us to pay close to 40mil's upward for him, we should instade look for a much younger efficient solution for such amount afterall it's january.