Sentence examples for inoculum from inspiring English sources

Soluble salts of propionic acid, principally sodium propionate, have been accepted and extend shelf life appreciably in the absence of a massive inoculum.

Isolation of a pure culture may be enhanced by providing a mixed inoculum with a medium favouring the growth of one organism to the exclusion of others.

Pruning and excision of a diseased portion of the plant have aided in reducing inoculum sources for canker and wood-rot diseases of shade trees and fire blight of pome fruits.

Most control measures are directed against inoculum of the pathogen and involve the principles of exclusion and avoidance, eradication, protection, host resistance and selection, and therapy.

They waited for four weeks for the inoculum to generate an immune response.

Whole viruses, or their embalmed remnants, aren't needed; here, the inoculum consists of a piece of DNA that encodes a gene or genes from the virus, and pieces of genetic machinery that turn on those viral genes in animal cells.

The inoculum may not stimulate enough immunity to resist the viral challenge.

At the N.I.H. Clinical Center, in Bethesda, Mascola and Fauci watched a volunteer — a twenty-nine-year-old woman — receive the first dose of the DNA inoculum.

The naked-DNA inoculum, by contrast, is usually produced in bacterial cultures; it's technically challenging to create the material in the necessary quantities.

"I do find that alarming because it implies she had a very small inoculum".