Sentence examples for transient epidemic from inspiring English sources

Third, although it may represent a transient epidemic, i.e., not true persistence, the presence of human cases (Hc, binary) was also considered as a complementary index.

Local variation in abundance of specific parasites can be due to transient epidemics or alternatively, to more stable variation in population densities caused by habitat or environmental differences.

Locality and time of isolation data suggest that entrance to all studies was sporadic and there was no evidence of transient epidemics.

Two hypotheses may explain 40 years of temporal and spatial pulses of Ebola outbreaks: episodic shedding from persistently infected reservoir hosts or transient epidemics that occur as the virus is transmitted among reservoir populations during animal migrations.

In addition, Dickinson and Pearce [8] studied stochastic models for more general transient processes including epidemics.

The cholera epidemic of 1884 aroused a transient spirit of reform, reflected in slum clearance, modernization of water and transport systems, and other public works.

It is also possible that this effect is due to transient dynamics at the start of the epidemic related perhaps to the higher representation of young adults, as compared to children, among international travelers.

Seasonal human influenza epidemics typically consist of a transient tracheobronchitis caused by preferential attachment of the virus to the laryngeal, tracheal, and bronchial epithelia.

Moreover, no further analyses have been performed to establish her contribution to the outbreak, therefore we can only hypothesize that she has been a transient carrier of one of the less recurrent epidemic clones.

Positively associated combinations could reflect linkage disequilibrium in concordance with an epidemic population concept (37 ), which attributes disequilibrium to transient multiplication of successful variants doomed to dissipate within years, secondary to recombination.

Scientists now believe that the recurring epidemic known as March Madness is due to a transient altering of the genetic code best illustrated in this diagram.