Definition of infected
: having an infection : contaminated with an infective agent (such as a bacterium or virus)
- an infected wound
- Through a number of different means, these viruses persist at very low, hard-to-detect levels in infected cells.
- —The Journal of the American Medical Association
- She explains that leptospirosis bacteria are shed in the urine of infected animals.
- —Tania Banak
- The fungus produces as many as 1 million conidia per square centimeter of infected leaf surface.
- —G. B. Lucas
