Infect

These cordyceps infect an ant, grow inside its body and then force the ant to climb to a high point on a plant or tree, where it can release fungal spores to infect and take over the greatest number of ants possible.

It’s not because you need a certain number of particles of virus to infect a cell — it just increases the odds that one of those viral particles will make it into the cell and infect it, setting off the chain reaction.

Some infect people and other infect only animals.

Powdery mildew requires season-long management because of early season inoculum and subsequent infection caused by fungal spores that can infect, develop new spores and re-infect throughout the summer.

Many of the most common primary pathogens of humans only infect humans, however many serious diseases are caused by organisms acquired from the environment or that infect non-human hosts.

Nine families infect bacteria only, nine infect archaea only, and one (Tectiviridae) infects both bacteria and archaea.

Along with Sara Sawyer, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, he proposed a series of experiments to assess an animal virus’s potential to infect a human.

A MYSTERY lab in Wuhan conducted secret experiments to clone and soup up coronaviruses to infect humans, a bombshell study has revealed.

As the Cordyceps fungi adapted to infect humans and spread across the planet, it transformed regular humans into frightening beasts.

Hackers may exploit the chip to infect cell phones with malware or steal personal information, such as passwords, financial information, and bank account numbers.

If these hands catch you, they will infect you with gloom as they shake the life out of Link.

In a worst case scenario, H5N1 or another virus could mutate in a mink and infect a human — and this is why many experts believe fur-producing facilities such as mink farms should be abolished.

In rare cases, the hookworms can even infect the intestines, leading to stomach pain, diarrhoea, and general discomfort.

In the show, climate change causes the fungus to mutate to infect humans.

I want to write and ask, why didn’t they infect anyone?

Let's open up a vein to let you infect everyone!

Malware is used by hackers to infect other computers and electronic devices connected to the internet with viruses.

Neither did it infect Adegbamigbe, who kept speaking in a tone that was not dread-laden but near-sepulchral.

Now, there’s a new headache for the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, as it’s been found it has a tendency to send you to malware websites that can infect your PC.

Once enough Americans were vaccinated, the reasoning went, antibodies would block so many infections that the coronavirus would just die out for lack of new victims to infect.