Sentence examples for epidemiological role from inspiring English sources

A common approach in epidemiology is to study the transmission of a disease in a population where each individual is initially susceptible (S), may become infective (I) and then removed or recovered (R) and plays no further epidemiological role.

The epidemiological role of long-horned tick in tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), a widely prevalent disease in Europe, the Russian Federation, and parts of East Asia is not entirely clear, but TBE virus has been isolated recently from H. longicornis and one of its mammalian hosts, striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius in South Korea15,16,17.

If "patient 0" had an epidemiological role to play, "Patient Zero" had an important part in the telling of the story.

In conclusion, our data document for the first time the high susceptibility of an insectivorous passerine species to H5N1 infection, and the epidemiological role of these passerine birds is probably limited due to their high sensitivity to HPAIV H5N1 infection.

Migrating birds seem to act as transporters, or as reservoirs, of resistant bacteria and could therefore have an important epidemiological role in the dissemination of resistance, as well as being mirrors of the spectrum of pathogenic micro-organisms present in humans.

Finally, interspecific interactions need to be considered when assessing the epidemiological role of a host species.

Spatial representation of pathogen exposure in different species can also contribute to the understanding of epidemiological roles.

As various animal host species take part, with different epidemiological roles, to the transmission of WNV, a multispecies surveillance approach is required.

longipalpis, identified as cryptic sibling species based on neutral genetic markers, have distinctive epidemiological roles. 2 The incubation period is usually from 2 weeks to 18 months, 11 with gross inflammatory reactions within the viscera often developing 2 8 months after infection and any initial skin lesions, but VL symptoms can take years to appear.

However, because the association between glycemic control and macrovascular disease is mainly obtained from epidemiological data, the role of glycemic control in macrovascular disease is still controversial.

In epidemiological data, the role of inexperience can be identified by an initial high fatality risk per distance travelled, followed by a steady decline as experience grows [ 12].