infection

[Example Sentences]:
1. It comes at a time when new cases of infection are significantly down.
2. He added that officials were deeply concerned by the infection of the worker.
3. There was no sign of infection in anyone who had had close contact with him, said officials.
4. All five patients are still not an infection risk.
5. Both the infection and the bacteria are often referred to as anthrax.
6. From a single computer, the infection can spread on its own throughout a corporate network.
7. The initial infection malware has the primary goal of gathering information about a targeted system.
8. On average, each robbery took between two and four months to complete from infection to theft.
9. Texas health authorities are working with the CDC to pinpoint how and where the infection occurred.
10. The tentative assessment of this virus is that it may cause human infection or epidemic.
11. The firewall failed to detect and stop the infection as did antivirus software.
12. See the graph below, which shows infection rates for systems of the various categories.
13. The relative danger of mobile malware infection, for the most part, continues to be overstated.

[Antonyms]purification, disinfection, antidote

[Synonyms]contagion, contamination, taint