Difference between Infectious and Contaminating

INFECTIOUS vs CONTAMINATING: ADJECTIVE

Caused by infection or capable of causing infection
Of or relating to infection
Capable of causing infection.
Capable of being transmitted by infection.
Capable of transmitting a disease; contagious.
Spreading or tending to spread from one to another.
Easily spread
Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated.
Transmitted from one person to another, usually through the air breathed.
Able to infect others.
Spreading quickly from one person to another.
Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic

Children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
Communicable by infection; easily diffused or spread from person to person or from place to place, as a disease, a moral influence, or a mental condition: specifically applied to diseases which are capable of being communicated from one to another, or which pervade certain places, attacking persons there, independently of any contact with those already sick. Infectious diseases include contagious and miasmatic diseases.
Capable of communicating infection; that infects, taints, or corrupts; contaminating: as, infectious clothing; infectious air; an infectious vice.
In law, capable of contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure or forfeiture.
Synonyms Catching, communicable.
Contaminating, poisoning, defiling.

Pathogen, Disease, Viral, Infected, Virulent, Contractable, Corrupting, Septic, Catching, Contaminating, Transmittable, Transmissible, Infective, Communicable, Contagious

Pathogen, Disease, Viral, Infected, Virulent, Contractable, Corrupting, Septic, Catching, Contaminating, Transmittable, Transmissible, Infective, Communicable, Contagious

The symptoms of infectious arthritis depend on the specific infectious agent and specific joints involved.
Epidemiology of infectious haematopoietic necrosis and infectious pancreatic necrosis of rainbow trout in North East China.
The model further assumes FMD individuals will pass through four epidemiological states: susceptible; infected, but not infectious; infectious; or reported infected and thereby culled.
These potentially infectious contaminants can contaminate other vials in the dewar and generate an infectious aerosol as the liquid nitrogen evaporates.
Selection of appropriate respiratory protection is critically important for aerosol transmissible infectious pathogens, and for any other airborne infectious diseases.
Newcastle disease, infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngotracheitis, fowl pox, and fowl cholera vaccinations per facility standard operating procedures.
Minute Infectious Diseases Consult, Second Edition provides comprehensive coverage for clinicians dealing with infectious diseases.
The International Society of Infectious Diseases came out with a little book this year on controlling infectious outbreaks in hospitals.
An infectious person is one from whom the infectious agent can be acquired.
Clinical Infectious Diseases Infectious Disease Society of Americas.