Sentence examples for main mode of transmission from inspiring English sources

The number of new H.I.V. infections reached almost 7,000 in 2002; by 2005 that figure had dropped to just over 6,100, with intravenous drug use the main mode of transmission.

However, new infections rose to 3,652 in 2010, the last year for which figures are available, as sex overtook intravenous drug use as the main mode of transmission.

Most patients, though, have contracted the disease directly from another victim by inhaling infected droplets from coughs or sneezes.Although the main mode of transmission is thus thought to be understood, some participants in the conference worried that people may be carrying and transmitting SARS without displaying any symptoms, making the disease far harder to contain.

CDC investigators say that the case shows there is still more to learn about Zika, but emphasized that mosquitoes are still the virus's main mode of transmission.

The results show that the proposed model and the control scheme can improve the accuracy of tendon-sheath mechanism without using any output feedback and can be easily implemented in surgical robots using tendon-sheath mechanism as the main mode of transmission.

While mosquitoes are the main mode of transmission for the disease, the Zika virus can remain in semen for an indeterminate amount of time.

Sexual transmission and injection drug use continue to be the main modes of transmission among adolescents.

Overall, only 25% correctly identified the main modes of transmission and the main preventative measures of HIV.

Main modes of transmission are contacts with infected blood or other body fluids, for example during sexual intercourse.

However, when the knowledge of the main modes of transmission was analyzed combined with the knowledge of the risk categories the percentage was reduced to 36.1.

Contact and saliva are the main modes of transmission although faeces have also been shown to contain virus shed from infected cats [ 3].