Infective meaning

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In the case of the latter animal the serum infective conditions led Metchnikoff to place great p g importance on phagocytosis.

However, they remain infective in water or moist soil for about one year.

In some of the infective conditions the conflict fortifies the organism against future attacks of the same nature, as for example in the immunity following many of the acute infective diseases.

The parasitic hypothesis postulates the invasion of a parasite from without, thus making a new growth an infective process.