Sentence examples for epidemic offset from inspiring English sources

The second main conclusion of this work was that variation of the transmission parameter and the start of the epidemic (offset) over epidemic years could explain the variation in seasonal epidemic size.

However, Taiwan often experiences summer influenza epidemics which would offset any attempt to obtain a reasonable "excess" P&I mortality for the winter season.

Three parameters associated with variation across epidemic years were estimated: 1) the temporal offset of the epidemic cycle, 2) detection fraction (f), and 3) transmission parameter.

But these advances cannot offset the epidemic explosion of this disease which is essentially due to changes in life style leading to overweight, diabetes and hypertension.

This trend may reflect a growing MSM syphilis epidemic that is being offset by syphilis cases in their female partners, but more data is needed to understand this pattern.

If there was differential selection between the parasitic and saprophytic phases, selection for traits involved in establishment and reproduction during the initiation of the 2005A epidemics may have partially offset selection for traits involved in saprophytic competition.

The three model parameters allowed to vary by epidemic year (detection fraction, transmission parameter, and offset) provided possible rationale for the variation in seasonal epidemic size.

The final model parameter was the offset of the annual epidemic cycle.

In this issue of BMC Public Health, Preaud and colleagues from vaccine producer firms report estimates of the annual impact of influenza epidemics in terms of morbidity/mortality and offset costs for 27 EU/EEA countries [ 3].

The pattern of variation in estimates of offset from all models matched the biennial cycle variation in total epidemic size across epidemic years.

Unlike in lowland environments where the potential for malaria epidemics owing to decreasing levels of natural immunity may be offset by negative impacts of urbanization on anopheline mosquito larvae, and where therefore malaria control may be simpler [ 9], control strategies in highland areas should be much more based on prevention of epidemics.