The phrase "as a potential causative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing something that may cause an effect or influence an outcome.
Example: "The study examined various factors as a potential causative for the observed changes in behavior."
Alternatives: "as a possible cause" or "as a likely factor".
Epidemiologic studies and increasingly sophisticated viral detection methodologies have helped to define the role of rhinovirus as a potential causative agent in asthma exacerbations.
Nutritionally deficient streptococcus has been implicated in numerous human diseases, including endocarditis, and is increasingly being recognized as an important pathogen as our ability to culture this pathogen improves and, thus, should be considered as a potential causative organism in corneal ulcers and infectious crystalline keratopathy.
Ultimate verification of actual gene number and genome duplication as a potential causative mechanism would require sequencing of one or more dinoflagellate genomes, which will also further validate the eukaryotic log gene number-log genome size correlation empirically derived in this study.
Investigations for cadmium as a potential causative agent needs to be initiated.
The decreased energy capacity of aging skeletal muscle, coupled with recent proteomic experiments, implicates diminished CKm function as a potential causative factor for age-related sarcopenia [ 8- 12].
It further strengthens the argument for a prohypertensive role of C1 neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla as a potential causative factor for essential hypertension.
As DC apoptosis is a potential causative factor for post-septic death, we examined DC apoptosis by flow cytometry.
It is considered a potential causative agent of Merkel cell carcinoma, a life-threatening skin cancer.
The missense mutation KRT9 c.487C>T, identified in this large Uygur population, is a potential causative mutation.
Is there a locomotory mechanism that could explain a potential causative link between whip use and consequent performance?
A potential causative viral agent was detected in 88% of the cases.
