Sentence examples for epizootiological studies from inspiring English sources
Sensitive and effective methods for detection and identification of Ichthyobodo spp. are needed to aid diagnosis of ichthyobodosis and epizootiological studies on Ichthyobodo spp. We have designed a specific quantitative real-time PCR assay targeting SSU rDNA for the detection of Ichthyobodo spp. infections.
Broadly defined, epizootiological studies are the study of disease occurrence in animal (in this case honey bee) populations.
Descriptive epizootiological studies attempt to elucidate the cause(s) of disease by comparing health and risk factors in "diseased" and "non-diseased" populations [8].
However, previous epizootiological studies of small mammals, captured in HFRS-endemic regions, have suggested that shrews (Order Soricomorpha, Family Soricidae) and moles (Family Talpidae) might also serve as reservoir hosts of hantaviruses [11] [13].
Data from subsequent epizootiological studies and a series of long-term experimental exposures of softshell clams to no. 2 fuel oil, JP-4, and JP-5 jet fuel at the U.S. EPA, Environmental Research Laboratory in Narragansett, Rhode Island, and in the field did not support an etiology by these petroleum products.
We initiated a descriptive epizootiological study in order to better characterize CCD and compare risk factor exposure between populations afflicted by and not afflicted by CCD.
The epizootiological study supports the interpretation that the disease is infectious exclusively to this species.
In an attempt to identify the potential cause(s) of CCD, we conducted an epizootiological survey of CCD-affected and non-affected apiaries.
The above findings, which are based on data collected in the field, answer some fundamental questions regarding epizootiological processes of BBD, the most widespread and destructive of coral infectious diseases.
