Sentence examples for measures of parasite from inspiring English sources

Further, epidemiological research on micro-parasitic infection such as malaria is largely based on two distinct measures of parasite abundance within communities of people.

Here we explore the effect on measures of parasite genetic diversity of applying various field sampling approaches, both in terms of the number of (human) hosts sampled and the number of transmission stages (miracidia) sampled per host for a Schistosoma mansoni population in Tanzania pre- and post-treatment with PZQ.

However, we found that some of these immune parameters differed quantitatively between different measures of parasite dose.

Other outcomes included measures of parasite specific immune responses induced by either vaccine; and safety, assessed by collection of adverse event data.

If the bees in colonies undergoing CCD collapse are young bees (as field observations suggest), we would expect to find indirect evidence of this in the measures of parasite loads with known associations to bee age.

All measures of parasite taxonomic richness and traits show significant phylogenetic signal.

A sudden, sharp increase in antibody levels was used as a measure of parasite recrudescence [22].

The total number of parasites per field at each concentration of 4-BPB was used as a measure of parasite attachment.

The slope of the log10 transformed parasite clearance curves was used as a measure of parasite clearance rate and calculated using TableCurve 2D (Systat Software, San Jose, California).

We have focused on the var genes as a measure of parasite fitness due to their role in both establishing chronic P. falciparum infections and promoting transmission to the mosquito.

Total parasite abundance represents an overall measure of parasite pressure.