Sentence examples for infectious index from inspiring English sources

We used stochastic techniques to estimate the risk that a second farm in the region would be exposed to the virus from the infectious (index) farm during a period of infectiousness, which was calculated at a range of days (2, 5, 10, and 15 days).

In the household of an infectious index case, the interactions between the contacts and index case are complex.

In the natural history of tuberculosis, infection with M. tuberculosis must first occur in a susceptible individual after one or more exposures to an infectious index case.

The prevalence difference estimates the additional risk for latent infection associated with living in a house of an infectious index case.

It is conceivable that families of more severely unwell, and thus potentially more infectious, index cases may have felt more compelled to voluntarily quarantine themselves.

The SAR for tuberculosis infection in household contacts is the probability of infection by the same strain of M. tuberculosis as the infectious index case during the exposure period.

The level of infectiousness is a function of the time since the person with active disease became infectious and is called the infectiousness index.

The infectiousness index is low for a person who has only recently become infectious and increases as the person becomes more ill [6].

Among 447 highly infectious TB index cases with advanced, bacteriologically culture-confirmed TB disease who were enrolled in the Kawempe Community Health Study from April 2002 to December 2007, only 31 index cases had FDR contacts evaluated and enrolled in this study.

In the absence of a practical gold standard for Mtb infection, exposure to an infectious TB index case has been used as a surrogate measure of infection [18], [19], [20], [21].

A decision tree was used to represent the clinical pathways associated with screening close contacts of infectious TB index cases.