Sentence examples for capacity of causing disease from inspiring English sources

Several lines of evidence suggest that this fitness advantage is not associated to a higher capacity of causing disease.

It is the need for transmission rather than the capacity to cause disease that drives viral evolution.

None of these guidelines discriminate among the large number of Legionella species or serogroups, even though it is clear that they differ in their capacity to cause disease.

The ability of F. tularensis to invade and replicate in host cells, particularly in immune cells such as macrophages, is critical for its capacity to cause disease.

Other aetiological agents, such as canine herpes virus or extracellular aerobic bacteria, that are known to have the capacity of causing genital disease and reproductive problems in dogs, are searched for more frequently.

The capacity of HV to cause disease in cetaceans is unclear and may show variations depending on the different conditions between individuals or within species [ 7- 10].

With regards fungal virulence, the capacity of fungal species to cause disease is a function of their ability to survive at the host temperatures.

The ability to use one mammalian model to evaluate both pathogenicity and transmissibility has allowed for a fuller understanding of the capacity of influenza viruses to cause disease, and the ability to place experimental results obtained from this model in the context of human infection.

Global climate change is also influencing the geographic distribution of hosts and pathogens, while also dually influencing the capacity of the pathogen to cause disease and the host's ability to mount a defensive response (Table 1).

The viral fitness is a key factor affecting the viral virulence which measures the capacity of a virus to cause disease [42].

While there is no direct evidence that SCCmec contributes to S. aureus virulence, recent work by Queck et. al. [38] has shown the type II SCCmec elements encode a new phenol soluble modulin (PSM) that alters the capacity of S. aureus to cause disease.