Sentence examples for index premises from inspiring English sources

Epidemiologic investigations conducted on poultry farms surrounding the index premises, including 6 farms located within the 3-km surveillance zone, showed no evidence of avian influenza virus infection.

A complete account of the index premises, disease control actions, and description of the Saskatchewan poultry industry is online at www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/avflu/2007sask/repsaske.shtml.shtml

Final outbreak size was most sensitive to the probability of spread via slaughterhouse-linked movements whereas the probability of onward spread beyond an index premises was most sensitive to the frequency of company personnel movements.

While the majority of outbreaks did not result in further onward transmission from the index premises, outbreaks could potentially cover up to 20% of the population (for a range of parameter values < 0.2) for which network data were available, covering distances of up to 730 km between premises (see Additional File 5, Figure S1).

However, these are the epidemics that are likely to cause the most strain on resources in an outbreak situation, so it is important to determine from the data if the rate of transmission via different routes, or the index premises in these epidemics, have any notable characteristics.

Table  3 shows the E-I index for premises regrouped per region, once all movements to slaughter have been excluded.

The premises index since then has been ≈2%; achieving an index of zero has been difficult since natural breeding habitats are created as quickly as they are eliminated (14 ).

This hypothesis is supported by the lower premises index in residences than nonresidences in 1997.

However, since the 1990s, the incidence of dengue has surged despite the low premises index.

In contrast, the premises index in 1966 was highest in residences: slum housing (27.2%), shophouses (16.4%), and apartments (5.0%) (9 ).

In a pilot project, this approach reduced the A. aegypti population in a 3-month period from 16% to 2%, as measured by the premises index, which is the percentage of inspected premises found to have containers with A. aegypti larvae or pupae (13 ).