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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alternative host" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, ecology, or technology, where it refers to a different organism or system that can support a particular function or process.
Example: "In the study of viral infections, researchers often look for an alternative host that can sustain the virus outside its primary host."
Alternatives: "substitute host" or "secondary host".
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Alternatively the infective stages may leave the alternative host and enter the definitive host through water or by active penetration of the skin.
Organisers are scrambling to find an alternative host.
Development on alternative host may increase parasitoid abundance and consequently increase their pressure on cereal aphids.
Forest habitats may provide ideal microclimatic conditions and alternative host plants that can promote population growth.
The relationship is important, because with the senescing and harvest of cereals P. alienus migrates to alternative host species, grasses.
He did not rule out the UK as an alternative host given its recent history of putting on successful global sporting events.
Measures taken to fight blister rust include growing resistant varieties, destroying nearby alternative host plants, observing strict sanitation measures, and spraying with fungicides.
The media used are the same as those used for expression of proteins in E. coli, simplifying and reducing the cost of the switch to an alternative host.
Attenuation has been achieved through several strategies, including sequential passage in an alternative host, deletion of specific genes or genetic engineering of viral genes encoding immunomodulatory proteins.
"So our approach was to find an alternative host that could be infected with human pathogens which was small enough and cheap enough to be used in drug screens.
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This evidence, together with a high oil content and tiny dimension of tobacco seed, prompted us to consider rice as an alternative host-species.
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