Sentence examples for capable of causing disease from inspiring English sources
If it is able to circulate for some considerable time, it can mutate to a strain capable of causing disease, called a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus.
Of the several hundred known species of parasites, only a small fraction are capable of causing disease in humans.
A further consideration is that of oocyst viability assessment, particularly significant due to the environmental longevity and highly infective nature of this pathogen, with a single viable oocyst capable of causing disease.
Thanks to the brilliant work of Pasteur and Koch, medical men, and even the general public, were becoming aware that the human environment was inhabited by an enormous number of microorganisms capable of causing disease, just as today we are increasingly conscious of the carcinogens that pervade our surroundings.
While this worldwide transport is not all bad -- a lot of plants and fisheries derive nutrients from the foreign dust -- a significant portion of the blown organisms, he said, are "capable of causing disease".
A single CNV is capable of causing disease.
However, because rodent-borne hantaviruses are capable of causing diseases as clinically disparate as HFRS and HCPS, shrew- or mole-associated hantaviruses might similarly cause a spectrum of diseases.
Staphylococcus aureus is a major human and live-stock-associated pathogen that is capable of causing diseases ranging from superficial skin infections to life-threatening sepsis.
The realization that rodentborne hantaviruses are capable of causing diseases as clinically disparate as HFRS and HPS increases the possibility that hantaviruses harbored by nonrodent hosts may similarly cause a wide spectrum of febrile diseases or be linked with a syndrome currently of unknown etiology.
Further study of parasite virulence and fitness in these deletion mutants would be of interest, but they are obviously capable of transmission and of causing disease as all cases were symptomatic.
If these isolates remain capable of causing invasive disease is unclear although the aspergillus disease was thought to have contributed to the death of our patient and only resistant fungus was cultured from respiratory samples shortly before his death.
