Sentence examples for biting sand from inspiring English sources

The picture-perfect beaches and turquoise waters that people expect from the Caribbean are increasingly being fouled by mats of plant matter that attract biting sand fleas and smell like rotten eggs.

In 2008, collections were made from human dwellings in a bid to determine the human biting sand flies in the outbreak areas.

He gives us documentary war footage, hurtling jeeps, bullets biting the sand and sweat-stained shirts.

On the Mediterranean coast, night-biting sand flies can spread leishmaniasis.

He heard Karen yell "Shit!" But then the tires bit into sand, he cut the wheel, and the Jeep straightened out and resumed its crawl.

On his first day of filming, he was bitten by sand flies and fell into a river.

When assessing the exposure characteristics of donors in each of clusters E H, the simple majority of Leishmania-infected donors made up the individuals grouped into cluster F, whereas cluster G was populated mostly by individuals who were bitten by sand flies but not infected.

Bivariate analysis revealed that higher CL incidence was associated with being male (RR = 4.37; P = 0.009), sleeping in open rooms (RR = 1.83; P = 0.014), not wearing long-sleeve clothing (RR = 1.84; P = 0.002), and reporting being bitten by sand flies (RR = 2.70; P = 0.042) (Table 3).

In India, P. argentipes and P. papatasi are the most frequent human-biting sand flies.

To investigate whether cross-reactive antigens to the competing human-biting sand fly P. papatasi interfered with the P. argentiptes ELISA, we re-examined the sera with a P. papatasi saliva ELISA.

Moreover, a positive correlation between IgG levels against the saliva from both these human-biting sand flies was present in persons in India from VL-endemic areas (P < 0.0001, Spearman r = 0.71).