During a delivery the women giving birth have close and prolonged contact with e.g. midwifes (4 NO), which facilitates to transmit agents via contact.
The discovery of interferon by Isaacs and Lindenmann in 1957, had made De Somer very enthusiastic about the prospects of interferon as a broad-spectrum antiviral agent, and he wanted to transmit this enthusiasm to myself.
Conversely, these benefits may be offset by the increased risks for such individuals, for example from metabolic costs of dominance [37], [38], or risks they pose to others, such as their increased propensity to transmit infectious agents [7], [8], [33] or disrupt reproduction through hyper-aggressiveness [39].
Close human macaque contact has the potential to transmit infectious agents between the species (7, 8 ).
NFκB is a nuclear transcription factor that is known to be activated by inflammatory signaling of several agents, including TNF-α, and to transmit their messages into the nucleus.
"The clusters in New Guinea show that one infected meal was enough to transmit the agent.
We studied their seroepidemiology but were unable to obtain genomic sequence or to transmit an agent to laboratory rats.
In Brazil, Magalhães (15 ) reported that R. rickettsii infected A. cajennense adult ticks required 36 hours of feeding to transmit the agent to guinea pigs.
Vector competence b is the ability of an arthropod to transmit an infectious agent following exposure to that agent [12].
Vector competence, a component of the vectorial capacity equation, is the ability of an arthropod to transmit an infectious agent following exposure to that agent.
One can imagine that when a host is infected, its ability to transmit the infectious agents to another infected host is reduced compared to its ability to transmit the infectious agent to a susceptible individual.
