Sentence examples for transmitted agent from inspiring English sources
Characterised by Shilts as promiscuous and irresponsible, Dugas – who died of Aids in 1984 after assisting with studies into whether it was caused by a sexually transmitted agent – was widely vilified.
Compelling data implicate HPV as the long sought sexually transmitted agent of cervix cancer [3], the second most common cancer among women worldwide [4].
The role of a sexually transmitted agent in the etiology of anal cancer was first suggested in 1979 (Cooper et al, 1979).
Current HPV vaccines were the product of 100 years of epidemiological data on the association between cervical cancer and a sexually transmitted agent, and 20 years of firm biological evidence that a few mucosal HPV types (denominated oncogenic types) were such agents (IARC, 1995).
Avalable descriptive and analytical research suggests that the etiology of prostatic cancer is most probably related to hormonal influences rather than to a horizontally transmitted agent, while the etiology of testicular cancer is most probably related to endogenous or exogenous hormonal influences in utero or in infancy, or to in utero exposure to other exogenous agents.
Screening for a sexually transmitted agent has important implications (Duncan et al, 2001), with particular significance for those in long-term monogamous relationships or within groups where lifelong monogamous relationships are more strongly advocated, such as some religious and ethnic minority groups (Elam et al, 1999).
Some of the factors, which can have adverse health effects on humans, include biological environmental agents, which causes infection; vectors, which transmit agents; chemical environmental agents; toxins; and physical environmental agents.
Tabanids as well as Stomoxys calcitrans, Musca domestica, and Calliphora erythrocephala have been evaluated as transmitting agents [5], [6].
It transmits agents that cause Lyme borreliosis, human anaplasmosis, and human babesiosis.
This therefore concurs with studies done before showing the key role ticks play as transmitting agents of C. burnetii between wild life and livestock [ 6, 8].
During a delivery the women giving birth have close and prolonged contact with e.g. midwifes (4 NO), which facilitates to transmit agents via contact.
