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infectivitynoun
The ability of a pathogen to establish an infection
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Infectivity
In epidemiology, infectivity refers to the ability of a pathogen to establish an infection. More specifically, infectivity is a pathogen's capacity for horizontal transmission that is, how frequently it spreads among hosts that are not in a parent-child relationship. The measure of infectivity in a population is called incidence. Infectivity has been shown to positively correlate with virulence. This means that as a pathogen's ability to infect a greater number of hosts increases, so does the level of harm it brings to the host. A pathogen's infectivity is subtly but importantly different from its transmissibility, which refers to a pathogen's capacity to pass from parent to child.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of infectivity in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of infectivity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of infectivity in a Sentence
All data establishing risk, ability to recover, infectivity is crucial in a pandemic, data ought to be collected, transparent as to methods, and disseminated promptly.
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