Sentence examples for epidemic time from inspiring English sources

Because our question address spatial transmission, detailed human movement data to parallel the epidemic time series would be ideal for comparison but these are not available, particularly for children, during the 1940s and 50s [3].

Expression [6] also shows how the initial Rt can be estimated geometrically (without the need for parameter search or numerical optimization) from an epidemic time delay plot of surveillance data: b Rt) is the slope of the tangent at the origin of case trajectories (dashed line in Fig. 2a, b).

Many methods to calculate R have been described that allow for the use of epidemiologic data from different epidemic time points [ 7].

However, over shorter epidemic time scales, where viral populations have not substantially diverged, VP1 sequencing cannot provide the required resolution to discriminate between viruses in field samples collected from neighbouring farms within outbreak clusters.

The initial phase of the epidemic (time before discovery of the first case) is determined by the number of index patients that start the epidemic outbreak and by the time it takes to diagnose the first case.

Epidemic times for disease B were selected to fall at months 37, 61, 109, and 121.

Epidemic times for disease A were arbitrarily selected to fall at months 13, 49, 85, and 121; each epidemic lasted one year.

Because DENV can be transmitted by blood transfusion [ 4, 6] and infection can be asymptomatic [ 1– 3], there is great concern about DENV activity among blood donors in endemic places in the absence of overt epidemic and during epidemic times.

Clonal variance (V C ) and broad-sense heritability (H) for susceptibility to infection also increased dramatically between the pre- and post-epidemic time periods, as would be expected with disruptive selection.

17 RIADTs help physicians to diagnose influenza during epidemics, but the RIADT results make it difficult to diagnose flu during periods of transition from epidemic to non-epidemic times, or when patients present with atypical symptoms.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09015.008 The mean CFR overall was 79%9595% CI = 76.4 81.6), but there were significant differences between epidemics and within epidemics over time.