Sentence examples for less transmissible from inspiring English sources

Even under total cross-immunity, coinfections increase the chance of invasion by a new strain into a population at endemic with other strains and simultaneous transmission enables a less transmissible strain to successfully invade (Table 4).

Estimates for the transmissibility of this virus suggest that the novel H1N1 was less transmissible than the 1918 pandemic strain.

Since resistance emergence may impose fitness cost on pathogen replication and transmission [ 11], we assume that the drug-resistant pathogen is less transmissible than the drug-sensitive pathogen.

(H.I.V.-2, less virulent and less transmissible, is discovered in 1985).

Mers is considered a deadlier but less transmissible cousin of the Sars virus that erupted in Asia in 2003, infecting 8,273 people and killing nearly 800.

But it has shown little ability to pass from person to person, mainly infecting poultry, and some experts suggest that there may be something about the H5N1 virus that makes it inherently less transmissible among people.

"Because there are fewer strains, they are less replicative and transmissible".

Mutant viruses with alterations in their fusion proteins that could emerge under selective pressure would have impaired fusion machinery triggering mechanisms, and should be far less fit and transmissible than the parent viruses.

(This also created transmissible strains, albeit less virulent ones).

Avian flu now kills about half its known victims -- but flus that become more transmissible generally become less lethal, too.

The CaMV transmissible complex and the transmission body.