Sentence examples for outbreak index from inspiring English sources

He required mechanical ventilation, and on illness day 14, he was given convalescent-phase plasma (200 mL; antibody titer unknown) from the outbreak index patient's wife (1 ).

In fact, while the other five isolates from the same outbreak shared the same sequences of the outbreak index case K1207, the CDSs of S0108 were found in the strains isolated from sporadic meningitis cases, but differed from those of the outbreak isolates (Table  1).

For both outbreaks, index case-patients were interviewed to trace others who had eaten these meals.

Outbreak role index is calculated from SNA graph which represents the probability of any user to receive or spread the infection.

During this outbreak, the index case-patient was febrile while traveling on 3 flights.

He pointed to better global evaluations by the WHO and an increase in outbreak threat indexes as steps in the right direction.

Moreover, in all of these larger outbreaks, the index cases were atypical or hemorrhagic.

Even more marked differences existed at the block and neighborhood levels, and after the outbreak the indices returned to average values <1 at all levels of measurement.

In Markounda Sub-prefecture, Ouham Prefecture where the outbreak started, the index case was an unvaccinated 6-year-old boy from Maitikoulou village.

It was not possible to find a plausible source of the outbreak since the index case could not be defined, as the first three horses infected had indirect cross-contacts within the hospital.

Whether the index outbreak in Tambun was a result of a single event (transmission of a flying fox NV to pig), which resulted in clonal propagation and transmission of the virus to pigs and subsequently humans, was unclear.