Infection

//ɪnˈfɛkʃən//

"Infection" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The puncture wound was very deep and had to be examined for infection.

You have a gum infection.

I think I have a gum infection.

I have an ear infection.

The government didn't take appropriate measures to prevent the infection from spreading.

I had a bladder infection last month.

Syphilis is an infection that can be transmitted through sexual intercourse.

Effective use of disinfectant is an important subject in relation to infection control in hospitals.

The infection has reached the bloodstream.

Antibiotics are a cure for infection.

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An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.

And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.

It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]

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