Sentence examples for consistent with epidemic from inspiring English sources
These identical genotypes were strongly clustered in time, consistent with epidemic transmission of clones and subsequent breakdown of allelic associations, suggesting high rates of inbreeding and low effective recombination rates in this country.
The strong dependence of per capita mortality rates on infant density was also consistent with epidemic respiratory disease but not with vector borne disease because chimpanzee communities are too small to maintain persistent circulation of diseases such as malaria.
Comparison of the annual change in emm type frequencies in pharyngitis and invasive disease isolates indicated that certain emm types had highly variable frequencies, consistent with epidemic behavior.
Features of 42 (66%) isolates were consistent with epidemic BI/NAP1 strains (range 55%83%% for each facility), including amplification of the binary toxin gene cdtB and partial deletions in tcdC and resistance to moxifloxacin (MICs >32 µg/mL).
Previous estimates of the YFV population dynamics in South America have suggested that genotype I experienced a population growth rate with an extremely low epidemic doubling time (>20 years), while genotype II exhibited a constant population size, both consistent with epidemics dominated by sylvatic transmission3.
This positive shift is consistent with an epidemic age pattern described in the 1970s during an epidemic wave of meningococcal disease in Finland (29 ) and during the 1980s in the Netherlands (30 ).
Those data are consistent with the epidemic of deaths by overdose that are occurring across our country.
This could be consistent with an epidemic of diseases transmitted by lice.
Evidence of pandemic signature (not consistent with an epidemic mortality age pattern).
The phylogeny reconstructed by the neighbor-joining method with mid-point rooting or by maximum parsimony is overall consistent with the epidemic (Additional file 1).
The initiation and self-termination of many outbreaks could reflect only transient presence of events necessary for heightened transmission but are also consistent with stochastic epidemic fadeout.
