The phrase "as transmissible" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the ability of something, such as a disease or information, to be transmitted or spread from one entity to another.
Example: "The new strain of the virus is believed to be as transmissible as the original variant."
Alternatives: "equally transmissible" or "just as contagious".
Ebola in humans is spread only through direct contact with virus-laden bodily fluids, and is not as transmissible as such airborne viruses as influenza and measles.
Hence it is possible that some drug-resistant strains could be almost as transmissible as wild-type strains.
A recent molecular study suggests that drug-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis may be as transmissible as pan-sensitive strains (12 ).
In addition, previous research from pulmonary TB contact investigations showed that TB infection conversion rates among contacts did not differ significantly by mycobacterial species of the source case, suggesting that M. bovis is equally as transmissible as M. tuberculosis (28 ).
However, some isoniazid-resistant strains, such as those with a mutation at aa 315 of the katG gene, were as transmissible as drug-susceptible strains; these resistant, but equivalently transmissible, strains are typically associated with outbreaks (13 – 15 ).
Mad cow disease is one of several similar fatal brain diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Infectious diseases also known as contagious diseases, transmissible diseases or communicable diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms that infect a host organism and can be spread, directly or indirectly, from one organism to another.
While ribotype 078 is referred to as a hypervirulent strain, it is not likely as pathogenic or transmissible as ribotype 027, based on fewer reports of severe disease or outbreaks associated with 078.
However, it is difficult to exclude the possibility that AS is naturally transmissible at a low level and precautionary measures including the continued monitoring of animals leaving the flock are sound.
As atypical mycobacteriosis is not regarded as readily transmissible between primates, no quarantine measures were implemented among animals housed with the index case (animal A).
The contention of BV as a transmissible disease then gained even more significance as epidemiological data pointed at concurrent carriage of G. vaginalis by women with BV and their male partners.
