Definitions for "Infective"
referring to an organism or virus able to attack a host and cause infection; referring to a vector carrying or containing a pathogen and able to transfer it to a host plant, causing infection.
able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria"
caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"
Infectious.