Sentence examples for primary host and from inspiring English sources

The primary host and reservoir of influenza C virus are humans, but there is evidence that this virus possesses the ability to also infect animals (Muraki and Hongo, 2010).

And if the world wants to tamp down and eliminate such violent extremism, it must confront this primary host and facilitator.

For the 2007 World Cup, France was the primary host, and there were ten venues used for matches throughout the country (Cardiff in Wales and Edinburgh in Scotland also hosted some games).

Thus, it would appear that the virulome of these bacteria are adapted to their primary host, and once transmission to a secondary host occurs the host immune system does not recognize the organism and colonization and disease can result.

LoGiudice and colleagues [9] suggested that pathogen prevalence could be influenced by a species other than the primary host, and coined this phenomenon a 'dilution host' A dilution host may be a species with low reservoir competency, transmitting the pathogen ineffectively and thereby reducing prevalence [9].

This increases their chances of being caught and eaten, thereby helping the parasite to return to its primary host and complete its life cycle.

Its primary hosting and data repository remains (as it has for several years) in Sweden, a country with better data protection and privacy laws than the US.

Since primary FL transplant cannot measure true HSC self-renewal potential, we collected BM cells from primary hosts and performed BM transplant into lethally-irradiated secondary hosts.

It is a typical heteroecious, holocyclic species, alternating among sexual reproduction on primary hosts and asexual reproduction on secondary hosts [37].

This suggests that the mazG gene in these phages may not have been acquired from their primary hosts, and perhaps at some stage these particular phages may have infected marine cyanobacteria or alternatively acquired their mazG gene from a common host.

However, pigs have been confirmed to be the primary hosts and reservoir of this virus (6 – 8 ).