Sentence examples for causative germ from inspiring English sources

Repeated deep scrapings, corneal biopsy as in our patient, or anterior chamber tap when it is compromised usually allow the identification of the causative germ [2, 3].

Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer in humans, where the causative germ line mutation has been identified as CDH1, is reported to be associated with 5% of all gastric cancer [ 17].

However, only 11 (1.5%) individuals mentioned that bacteria or germs are the causative agents of TBL.

For the last two decades, the cause of anticipation has been understood to be the propensity of long arrays of trinucleotide repeats (causative of the diseases) to expand during germ line transmission.

Given the odds it is much more likely that a causative relation between the carcinoma and the PTCH germ line mutation exists.

Accordingly, it can be hypothesized that the disruption of the epigenetic state of germ cell differentiation genes represents a causative agent of spermatogenic failure.

Transmissibility of reduced adiposity through transplantation of gut microbiota from RYGB mice to germ-free mice further substantiates a potential causative effect [ 159].

Type II TGCT is known to develop from dysfunctional gonocytes located within the seminiferous tubules, indicating that the risk factors predisposing an individual to TGCTs are active early in male foetal development, necessitating the investigation of early germ cell development in an effort to identify causative factors for type II TGCTs.

Before 2000 it was believed that 10% of phaeochromocytomas were associated with familial disease but it is now known that approximately 30% of patients with phaeochromocytoma carry a germ line (constitutional) mutation in one of the genes causative for specific familial cancer syndromes.

Following the establishment of the germ theory of disease in the mid-1880s and the development of laboratory techniques for the isolation of microorganisms (particularly bacteria), the causative agents of many common diseases were discovered in rapid succession.

It was not until the causative organism, Vibrio cholerae (initially discovered in 1854), was well characterized in the 1880s that the debate was decided in favour of germ theory.