How to Use noninfectious in a Sentence

noninfectious

adjective
  • That’s not to say that noninfectious infections aren’t still important to track.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • At the same time, their losses to noninfectious diseases rose at comparable rates.
    — Ron Barrett, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2024
  • Another is to use noninfectious viral components such as the proteins used for flu vaccines.
    — Matthew Woodruff, The Conversation, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Another is to use noninfectious viral components, such as the proteins used for flu vaccines.
    — Matthew Woodruff, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
  • This tube contains 15 billion virus-like vesicles—small sacs of noninfectious particles replicated in a lab.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2025
  • Ileana Arias, the acting deputy director for noninfectious diseases at CDC, said.
    — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The international campaign has a second battle to fight in Africa, where a strain of the noninfectious virus used in the oral vaccine has mutated back to infectiousness.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The remaining challenges to public health there, it was thought, stemmed from noninfectious conditions such as cancer, heart disease and degenerative diseases.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Their discoveries have opened up a new chapter in medicine, paving the way for new vaccines for other infectious diseases, including the flu, and treatments for noninfectious diseases such as cancer.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Folliculitis happens when noninfectious bacteria cause inflammation in your hair follicles, producing bumps that can look a lot like acne.
    — Jessica Toscano, SELF, 7 June 2022
  • By the mid-1960s, most sanatoriums were shut down as patients receiving new, effective drugs soon became noninfectious.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 10 May 2019
  • While the push for money for the project began years before covid-19, Gehrig said hospital staff members learned how to separate infectious and noninfectious patients.
    — Max Bryan, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2021
  • Despite overall health improvements, chronic noninfectious conditions such as heart disease and cancer rose to become the primary causes of human mortality.
    — Ron Barrett, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2024
  • The genome is then introduced into mammalian cells with a shell-like packaging element to produce virus-like vesicles (VLVs), small sacs of noninfectious particles.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2025
  • To effectively address noninfectious diseases and design new drugs, scientists need more detailed knowledge of how proteins, especially enzymes, bind small molecules.
    — Marc Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
  • This kind of behavior, alternating between being super infectious and fairly noninfectious, is exactly what k captures, and what focusing solely on R hides.
    — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • And nearly one in five developed a potentially fatal lung condition known as noninfectious pneumonitis — the condition Preston-Martin developed.
    — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • For instance, the mRNA vaccines ferry genetic information encoding noninfectious spike protein into cells.
    — Denise Roland, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Virus preparations pure enough to crystallize usually provide the best material for chemical studies, allowing scientists to split the poliovirus into infectious and noninfectious parts and lay the groundwork for development of the polio vaccine.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • When the incidence of a noninfectious disease changes so quickly — faster than our genomes can possibly accumulate new mutations that increase susceptibility — scientists suspect that changes in the environment are responsible.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • When volunteers are injected with these particles, their cells use the mRNA to reconstruct a noninfectious fragment of the virus, allowing their immune system to prepare antibodies that neutralize it.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The German researchers note several studies have proved dogs’ ability to detect infectious and noninfectious diseases, like cancer, malaria, and bacterial and viral infections with usually high rates of sensitivity and specificity.
    — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 30 July 2020
  • The mRNA vaccines can leapfrog the hurdles of developing traditional vaccines such as producing noninfectious viruses, or producing viral proteins at medically demanding levels of purity.
    — Sanjay Mishra, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2020

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