Infectious killer

Portuguese translation: infecções letais

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English term or phrase:Infectious killer
Portuguese translation:infecções letais
Entered by: Rafael Mondini Bueno

01:53 Apr 15, 2012
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Medical - Anthropology / Medical Anthropology
English term or phrase: Infectious killer
"Adding other infectious killers to the list, the butcher’s bill totals hundreds of millions of premature deaths over the next century."

É um artigo acadêmico de antropologia médica focado especialmente no HIV/AIDS e na tuberculose.
Rafael Mondini Bueno
Local time: 09:27
infecções letais
Explanation:
Diria assim em PT(pt)...

O VIH cresce nas células T, e quando o número de células imunitárias em circulação no sangue diminui para valores inferiores a 200 ou menos, o organismo fica susceptível ás infecções letais características da SIDA.
http://www.aidsportugal.com/Modules/WebC_AIDS/Articles/ViewA...

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 12:27
Grading comment
Muito obrigado, Teresa! :)
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5infecções letais
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
4 +1infecções assassinas
Manuel Leite
4matador infeccioso
ghostwriter-BR
4agente letal infeccioso
Paulo Marcon


  

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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
infectious killer
infecções assassinas


Explanation:
Sugg.

Ou "assassinos infecciosos".

Manuel Leite
Portugal
Local time: 12:28
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marcelo Fogaccia: fico com "assassinos infecciosos", nesse contexto.
11 hrs
  -> obrigado :-)
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
infectious killer
infecções letais


Explanation:
Diria assim em PT(pt)...

O VIH cresce nas células T, e quando o número de células imunitárias em circulação no sangue diminui para valores inferiores a 200 ou menos, o organismo fica susceptível ás infecções letais características da SIDA.
http://www.aidsportugal.com/Modules/WebC_AIDS/Articles/ViewA...



Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 12:28
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Muito obrigado, Teresa! :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
23 mins
  -> Obrigada, Salvador!

agree  Nick Taylor: No doubt
52 mins
  -> Thanks, Nick!

agree  oxygen4u: :)
1 hr
  -> Obrigada!

agree  Margarida Ataide
6 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Margarida!

agree  Sílvia Martins
8 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Silvia!
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
infectious killer
matador infeccioso


Explanation:
como em "infectious agent" (agente infeccioso), aqui o substantivo é "killer" (matador).

ghostwriter-BR
Brazil
Local time: 09:28
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
infectious killer
agente letal infeccioso


Explanation:
'Agente letal' está no lugar de 'killer', que me parece ser o núcleo de sentido da expressão.

Paulo Marcon
Brazil
Local time: 09:28
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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