How to Use infectivity in a Sentence

infectivity

noun

• Others will increase infectivity, as was the case with the B.1.1.7 strain found in the UK.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Mar. 2021
• Avoid cuts to the spinal column, which is where chronic wasting disease has been found to have the most infectivity.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2021
• The battle between the two men exploded into a bitter divide over the question of the infectivity of cholera.
  — Jeanne Lenzer, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2020
• And because of its infectivity, Delta has been able to elbow out any other variants that otherwise might have spread more widely.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• Lab studies found that mutations of the Ebola virus, which spread in West Africa starting in 2013, increased infectivity in tissue culture.
  — James Glanz, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• In the absence of any public health interventions, the peak of infectivity—the average point after being infected at which someone was most likely to pass the virus on—was about 5.3 days.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2020
• Nevertheless, the sheer infectivity of Omicron stretched some hospitals throughout the state to their limit.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• In the meantime, Bourouibia and her team advise that the best way to interfere with this high velocity cloud of infectivity is also one of the simplest and cheapest: quickly dashing your face and squashing that sneeze within the crook of your elbow.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016
• The Institutes of Health has repeatedly maintained that its funding did not go to such research involving boosting the infectivity and lethality of a pathogen.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2021
• Patients treated with Lambda, which stimulates immune responses, were below the infectivity threshold by day 7 of the 14-day study.
  — Bloomberg.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• With a high-enough infectivity, the vaccine should spread throughout any populations of hosts that aren't sufficiently isolated.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 July 2020
• In the mean time, scientists have looked over the mutations present in the new viral strain and speculated on which ones could potentially be providing it with enhanced infectivity or altering the course of infections.
  — John Timmer and Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2020
• There have been some optimistic indications that Omicron, despite its infectivity, may cause milder disease than some of the earlier variants.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
• The timeline may be slightly longer or shorter from person to person, but the general timeframe of infectivity to the development of symptoms is typically congruent.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• This change may increase the infectivity of the virus particles by facilitating cleavage of the S precursor protein to the active S1/S2 configuration.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• When they are used frequently during this period of infectivity, Mina believes their sensitivity and performance would far exceed that of a single PCR test.
  — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2020
• People infected with Covid-19 generally go through an initial phase of infectivity that could be impacted by an antiviral.
  — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2020
• Their study pinpoints, with unprecedented precision, exactly when in the disease course infectivity and symptom onset might be expected.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• To better understand the virus's uncertain future, Wei and other researchers are examining the precise spots in its genome where these mutations are taking place, particularly the places that might boost infectivity and antibody evasion.
  — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
• In fact, such speculation was so prominent that some suggested the furin cleavage site was artificially inserted to increase the infectivity of the virus as part of a laboratory gain-of-function experiment.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• Because aerosol concentrations levels and infectivity are highest in the space immediately surrounding anyone with the virus, increasing physical distancing can help reduce risk.
  — Byron Erath, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2021
• For example, one mutation widely touted this year—D614G—increases coronavirus replication and infectivity while also making the germ more vulnerable to neutralization by antibodies.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Science, 23 Dec. 2020
• This combination of initial and recurring infectivity carries enormous implications.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
• Concerns arise when mutations enhance virus infectivity, lethality or transmissibility.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024