Sentence examples for less colonization from inspiring English sources

The nibbled plants suffered about half as much damage from insects and 30% less colonization by aphids as the control plants.

Both milks significantly reduced EAEC adhesion to Caco-2 cells and transgenic milk resulted in less colonization than control milk using a HEp-2 assay.

In assays using HEp-2 cells, some qualitative differences could be seen between the milk types with transgenic milk having less colonization.

Poor specificity allows for the possibility that some of the decreases in pneumonia rates in both open-label and double-blind studies are due to less colonization rather than less pneumonia [ 14].

Both micropatterns demonstrated less microbial colonization and smaller aggregates than control surfaces for the two organisms tested (Figure 2).

Self-incompatible plants are thought to be less successful in colonization to oceanic islands than self-fertilizers (Baker [1955]; Stebbins [1957]; Barrett et al. [1996]); self-fertilizers can establish populations from single individual and reproduce successfully without suitable pollinators (Baker [1955]; Baker and Cox [1984]; Barrett et al. [1996]).

With regard to genetics of the mice, the outbred mouse strain CD-1 was less susceptible to colonization, however, it is possible this reflected the size of the mice rather than genetics.

These AST-CVCs are associated with less line-related colonization and sepsis [ 26, 27].

In conjunction with a multicenter randomized trial of fidaxomicin versus vancomycin for CDI treatment, we tested the hypothesis that fidaxomicin promotes VRE and Candida species colonization less than vancomycin.

Novel CVCs combining components of previously studied catheters have been demonstrated to have broader antimicrobial coverage and may well be less prone to colonization with select microorganisms as demonstrated in our investigation [ 30].

This effect may be due to the accumulation of a fungitoxic (phenolic) compound in this mutant, as has been proposed for the sorghum brown midrib12 mutant, which was shown to be less susceptible to colonization by Fusarium spp. (Funnell-Harris et al., 2010).