Sentence examples for majority of epidemic from inspiring English sources

CA-MRSA strains differ from the major pandemic clones of MRSA that account for the majority of epidemic HA-MRSA strains.

The majority of epidemic models fall either into the category of stochastic models (Bailey 1975; Bartlett 1956) or into the category of deterministic differential equation-based models (Anderson and May 1991; Kermack and McKendrick 1927).

Although the majority of epidemic influenza virus infection is usually mild, influenza has the potential to cause severe disease, particularly in young children and children with underlying medical conditions [ 14, 15].

Since the majority of epidemic strains are multi-drug-resistant (MDR) or extensively-drug-resistant (XDR) [ 8], many studies have investigated the genetic and functional basis of antimicrobial resistance [ 1, 2, 4- 6].

The majority of epidemic meningococcal disease has occurred in this region and has been mostly caused by serogroup A meningococci belonging to cc1 or cc5 [ 40, 41]; in particular three clones (ST-5, ST-7 and ST-2859, which are all part of cc5) have been largely responsible for meningococcal disease in Africa over the last 20 years [ 42- 44].

Remark 2 The constraints in (19) relative to the initial conditions and the parameters of the SIRS model are fulfilled for the majority of the epidemic diseases.

We now know that the majority of this epidemic is associated with one particular genotype (H58), which has swept across Asia and into Africa (Holt et al., 2010; Kariuki et al., 2010; Holt et al., 2011), displacing other genotypes in the process.

The name given to the viruses and the disease they cause is derived from the Ebola River, a tributary of the Congo River in central Africa, where the majority of EVD epidemics have occurred.

This is, indeed, one of the primary reasons for limiting projections to five years, over which time the majority of TB epidemics are reasonably stable.

Moreover, the majority of human epidemics reported by media have occurred in foreign countries (avian influenza and SARS in Asia, cholera, and hemorrhagic fever in Africa).

In some countries in the region, the nature of the epidemic has changed from a concentrated, to a generalised epidemic although in the majority of countries, the epidemic is at a relatively early stage.