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comparative more infective, superlative most infective
Able to cause infection; infectious examples
plural infectives
(epidemiology) A person who is capable of spreading a disease by infecting others. quotations
It is evident that the greater the number of susceptibles, then the greater the increase in the number of infectives.
2002, Belinda Barnes, Glenn Fulford, Mathematical Modeling with Case Studies, page 140