Sentence examples for maintaining infection from inspiring English sources

In northeastern USA, the white-footed mouse is a very common host for I. scapularis larvae and is also a highly efficient reservoir for B. burgdorferi, infecting 75 90% of the larvae it feeds, and maintaining infection lifelong (Donahue et al. 1987; Ostfeld 2011).

Alternatively, in established infection once a certain bacterial density has been achieved, PVL may play only a minimal role in maintaining infection.

Two aspects of the latent virus reservoir have emerged as crucial in maintaining infection.

Improving and maintaining infection control as part of delivery care requires an efficiently functioning health system.

Acquisition of nutrients by the fungus is therefore central to establishing and maintaining infection.

In addition, a sustainable method of maintaining infection prevention supplies, such as jik, will have to be worked out.

The authors speculate that since intestinal epithelial cells undergo rapid cell turnover, the bacteria promote cell cycle arrest to maintain infection; infected cells under cell cycle arrest resist apoptosis induction, since the cells are TUNEL-negative [ 34].

This underscores the importance of obtaining convalescent-phase serum samples to make final determinations about infection with SARS-CoV and of maintaining infection-control measures despite identification of alternative agents.

Transient host shifts have been observed for the pathogen from S. latifolia onto sympatric S. dioica that are already maintaining infections by its host-specific Microbotryum lineage, and vice versa [ 35].

Identification of subclinically infected animals is therefore important, as they are the main cause of maintained infection of a herd and of transmission of Map infections between herds and premises [ 3].

The fundamental properties of a functional virus are the ability to replicate the genome, to form infectious virions, and to cope with the host defense in order to establish and maintain infection; a virus meeting all these criteria is biologically fit.