infect - use in sentences

Object

  • cattle: Click here to buy Britain's Most Amazing Places BEEF from cattle infected with tuberculosis could be banned from the food chain.
  • organism: Such drugs rapidly destroy the pool of infecting organisms.
  • cell: The flu virus infects the cells which line your airways.
  • sheep: Only 0.5 g of infective material given orally has been found in experiments to be necessary to infect a sheep with BSE.
  • mosquito: By infecting mosquitoes with fungi, they can drastically reduce transmission of the disease, which kills well over a million people each year.
  • micro-organism: If the infecting micro-organism is a Microsporum species, then treatment with oral griseofulvin should be started.

Preposition: with

  • TB: Farm cats in the UK have previously been found to be infected with bovine TB.
  • virus: In 1905 the first William was infected with the virus for which there is no known cure.
  • roundworm: How does your dog get infected with roundworms and are they harmful?
  • tuberculosis: Click here to buy Britain's Most Amazing Places BEEF from cattle infected with tuberculosis could be banned from the food chain.
  • parasite: Or they can take Chloroquine and Paludrine but risk contracting malaria if bitten by a mosquito infected with resistant parasites.
  • salmonella: Remember how Edwina Currie kicked off a big scare about eggs, by saying they were all infected with salmonella?

Subject

  • ingestion: The definitive host becomes infected by accidental ingestion of ants.
  • virus: Your computer may be infected by a virus or spyware.
  • worm: As a result, nearly half the systems infected by the worm crashed within 12 hours.
  • parasite: From the moment Michael Rooker's town bully becomes infected by the parasite, it's a messy thrill-ride of increasingly grotesque adventures.

Preposition: by

  • ingestion: The definitive host becomes infected by accidental ingestion of ants.
  • virus: Your computer may be infected by a virus or spyware.
  • worm: As a result, nearly half the systems infected by the worm crashed within 12 hours.
  • parasite: From the moment Michael Rooker's town bully becomes infected by the parasite, it's a messy thrill-ride of increasingly grotesque adventures.

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