The phrase "attributable to viruses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing causes or origins of certain effects, particularly in scientific or medical contexts.
Example: "The symptoms observed in the patient were found to be attributable to viruses that were circulating in the community."
Alternatives: "caused by viruses" or "due to viruses".
The fraction of AGI attributable to viruses in the nondisinfected drinking water of the communities was estimated using QMRA.
We estimate 6 22% of the AGI in the study communities was attributable to viruses in nondisinfected tap water.
This suggests that the WNV epizootic observed in Israel between 1997 and 2000 may be attributable to viruses that were circulating in eastern Europe or elsewhere in the Near East since 1996.
That study, however, did not compare their metagenome reads to viromes from the same subjects, which likely would have demonstrated that a far greater proportion of their metagenomes were attributable to viruses.
There are many factors that may have affected this pattern; for example, hospitalizations for pneumonia and influenza attributable to viruses other than influenza, and the rate of testing by age group may have had an effect.
The mean or median of the frequency distribution of the incidence rate difference was divided by the mean or median of the total incidence to yield the fraction of AGI attributable to viruses in nondisinfected tap water [ IT – IB) ÷ IT] (Greenland et al. 2008).
Likewise, we assume that the seasonal terms (harmonics) capture weekly variations not attributable to virus activity.
All of these outbreaks were attributable to virus strains of phyloclusters 2.2, groups A and B, which originated from unknown sources but had phylogenetic links to viruses isolated during outbreaks of HPAI among wild birds at Lake Qinghai in northwestern China in 2005 44, 5 – 8 ).
Respiratory illnesses can be attributable to other viruses such as parainfluenza viruses (PIV) and human coronaviruses hCoV-229E, OC43 [ 7].
The burden of illness attributable to dengue viruses is estimated to be 390 million annually [ 2].
However, only 30% of all P&I hospitalizations during discrete influenza seasons have been statistically estimated to be attributable to influenza viruses [ 33].
