The phrase "a source of disease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or agents that contribute to the onset or spread of illness.
Example: "Poor sanitation can be a source of disease in densely populated areas."
Alternatives: "a cause of illness" or "a contributor to disease".
Stool was then widely assumed to be mainly a source of disease; there was little empirical support for the notion that bowel bacteria were important for health.
Neither merits bracketing with philosophy, any more than the study of demon possession as a source of disease is bracketable with medicine.
Looking way up north in the Arctic – where there are far fewer people, less travel and trade, and fewer infectious diseases – the signal that climate change is a source of disease outbreaks is clear.
As fungi are often ignored as a source of disease, it is time to add routine molecular testing of fungal pathogens to quality control measures for pharmaceuticals so we can end unnecessary illnesses.
"Once the primary school children have been done [given the new booster], if the disease goes away we can leave off doing anything further, but if pertussis remains a source of disease and death in young children, we have to see what else we can do".
Water can be a source of disease outbreaks (1 ).
However, the utility of BBB EMVs as a source of disease-specific biomarkers remains to be validated in further in vitro and in vivo studies.
In RA patients, it was proposed to use synovial fluid as an autologous source of autoantigens [ 34], but for pSS such a source of disease-specific autologous autoantigens has not yet been found.
Moreover, this clone is being used in various banana breeding programs as a source of diseases resistance [ 20, 21].
The article looked at how the focus on the school toilets as a source of the disease "may have masked the more threatening possibility the children were involved in sexual contact".
If wild boar are seen as a source of the disease, a potential conflict on biosafety can arise between the pig industry and hunting land owners [ 37, 49].
