Sentence examples for population contracting from inspiring English sources

Some of the most devastating infectious diseases are caused by protists such as malaria parasites and trypanosomatids: hence, about half the global population lives in malarious areas, with 10% of the world population contracting the disease each year, which results in 1 3 million annual deaths.

A significant reduction in the percentage of the population contracting one or more chronic diseases is possible by tackling and preventing physical inactivity, which is the fourth leading independent risk factor for death caused by non-communicable chronic disease [ 5].

In this example the population contracted to just four random survivors, a phenomenon known as population bottleneck.

In 2010, the WHO estimates that nearly 1/3 of the world's population contracted LTBI, and that 10% of these carriers will develop an active TB infection [ 3].

The calculated death count is the number of cases that would be expected in the study population if people in the study population contracted the disease at the same rate as people in the standard population.

We, therefore, examined the relationship between PD-1 expression on EBV epitope-specific CD8+ T cells during AIM and the degree to which these cell populations contracted between AIM and convalescence.

Over time, as Germany's overall population contracts, shrinking cities will become widespread across the country.

An estimated 76 million Americans, a quarter of the population, contract food-borne illness each year, but the vast majority of the cases are so mild that victims do not realize where the germs came from.

A population bottleneck is when a population contracts to a significantly smaller size over a short period of time due to some random environmental event.

Thus, Equation 35 predicts that the distribution of the admixture fraction for a random individual in the hybrid population contracts around the mean, converging to a constant equal to the mean admixture from the first generation.

Male life expectancy has fallen to African levels: 58 years is now the average life-span, and the population is contracting by 800,000 souls a year.