Sentence examples for causative agents of serious from inspiring English sources

Burkholderia mallei and B. pseudomallei, closely related Gram-negative bacteria, are causative agents of serious infectious diseases of humans and animals: glanders and melioidosis, respectively.

Their larvae are causative agents of serious diseases called echinococcoses.

Moreover, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) have emerged as causative agents of serious infections in hospitals [ 15].

Trypanosomatids, including Trypanosoma brucei, T. cruzi and different Leishmania species, are the causative agents of serious human as well as animal diseases, with a very high incidence and mortality rate if untreated.

The focus here will be on L. pneumophila, the causative agent of serious, life-threatening pneumonia ("Legionnaires' disease"), often requiring hospitalization [ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) 2011b; Yoder et al. 2008].

In spite of the vast number of publications on the bacterium, many questions about its pathogenicity are still unanswered, and this pathogen remains a major causative agent of serious human diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis and bacteraemia [ 1].

S. suis serotype 2 (SS2) is considered the most pathogenic as well as the most prevalent capsular type among thirty-three serotypes (types 1 to 31, 33, and 1/2) in diseased pigs, and it is also the causative agent of serious infections in humans, especially in people in close contact with pig or pork byproducts [ 1- 3].

The two basidiomycetous haploid yeasts, Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are causative agents of cryptococcosis, a serious disease that manifests as meningitis and meningoencephalitis in humans [5].

Our study is the first detailed study from Poland providing evidence of the significant role of adaptability to temperature changes as one of a complex of contributory factors allowing free-living amoebae to exist as parasites, namely, as the causative agents of AK, a serious human eye disease.

Vibrio cholerae is an inhabitant of aquatic systems and a causative agent of severe dehydrating diarrhea in humans1.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is an opportunistic colonizer of the nasopharynx and the causative agent of many serious diseases such as pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis and otitis media.