Sentence examples for focal diseases from inspiring English sources

This would be most apparent in focal diseases involving a small number of cases and affecting only a subset of the general population.

The results of this study indicate the possibility of missing disease clusters resulting from performing incidence risk investigations of focal diseases using inappropriate at-risk populations and/or at large geographic scales.

Focal diseases affecting a subset of the overall population present an often overlooked set of challenges in the calculation and reporting of incidence risk, and the detection of spatial patterns.

Although public health officials have traditionally reported the incidence risk of infection at the county level, the results of this study indicate that with focal diseases, such as LACV infections, analyses performed at a large geographic level may mask the underlying patterns of disease.

Our findings both reaffirm and highlight the need for the use of the appropriate at-risk population and geographic levels of analysis, and the reporting of incidence risk when performing analyses on focal diseases that affect only a subset of the population.

These characteristics offer an appropriate tool for targeted imaging of focal diseases [ 68, 69].

Unilateral focal disease has been treated using DCE imaging to contour the DIL with the intent of focal dose escalation.

Three infants with congenital focal disease, 1 with diffuse hyperinsulinism, and the child with insulinoma underwent selective pancreatic intra-arterial calcium stimulation with hepatic venous sampling.

In addition, one of the patterns of pancreatic involvement is a diffuse homogeneous infiltration of the organ, which then appears simply enlarged, but without any sign of focal disease, a deceiving appearance both at US and CT [11, 12].

Native T1 mapping is superior compared with T2-weighted and LGE techniques in detecting acute myocarditis [70, 71], which is helpful in subtle focal disease [72] and may detect pathology missed by LGE technique, such as pan-myocarditis [72].

We have chosen to use foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) as a focal disease because it is prevalent (over 70% seroprevalence using a conservative estimate from Ludi et al. (2016)) and easily recognized by cattle herders of this region (recognizable signs noted in Grubman and Baxt (2004) and Spickler et al. (2010)), so herders can easily answer questions about treating the disease from memory.