Sentence examples for agent of transmission from inspiring English sources

Here, a deliberate criminal action in stealing drugs, law enforcement officials said — though apparently never intended to spread disease — became the agent of transmission.

To find out that the system was allowing an agent of transmission to be sold here and fed to French cattle -- not to mention to other animals -- has caused understandable panic, compounded by anger at officials and almost reflex French Anglophobia.

It has generally caused little trouble this century because the main agent of transmission was a rather feeble insect, the blue-green sharpshooter, which cannot fly farther than three feet at a time.That changed with the arrival of its more robust, glassy-winged cousin, which lays eggs twice a year and can fly up to a quarter of a mile.

This would suggest that under certain conditions the prion protein, the accepted agent of transmission, can survive in the environment.

Anidulafungin was used as a chemical tool to interrogate the role of the cyst or trophic form as the agent of transmission.

Strong evidence for the cyst as the agent of transmission was provided by the failure of anidulafungin-treated mice to transmit the infection.

Not only do they have an impact on food resources, but mammals are also important reservoirs or agents of transmission of a variety of diseases that afflict man, such as plague, tularemia, yellow fever, rabies, leptospirosis, Lyme disease, hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Goose isolates from the QHL and Tibet outbreaks in 2006 formed a monophyletic group within sub-clade 2.2.2 and were closely related, providing additional evidence that migratory birds were agents of transmission between these two outbreak sites in China.

Indeed, Acanthamoeba strains were found to produce Legionella-containing vesicles, which may be agents of transmission of legionellosis.

The finding that fewer respondents identified houseflies as a cause of shigellosis may also result from the lower priority of public health action for shigellosis control, inasmuch as houseflies are recognised agents of transmission for shigellosis [ 34].

GOARN linked some of the world's best laboratory scientists, clinicians, and epidemiologists electronically, in virtual networks that provided rapid knowledge about the causative agent, mode of transmission, and other epidemiologic features (11 ).