Sentence examples for unspecified agent from inspiring English sources

And "the picnic ought to have been better organized" lies between the personal and the impersonal senses of "ought," referring to some unspecified agent without addressing a prescription to any particular individual.

These study results describe the estimated number of people who have died after being infected with 1 of the 30 pathogens or an unspecified agent, and the resulting illness may be either the cause or a contributing cause of death.

After discovery of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) as infectious agents causing viral hepatitis (Alter et al, 1978; Tabor et al, 1978), it became evident that many cases of chronic viral hepatitis were not caused by these viruses but rather by an as yet unspecified agent.

The numbers of illnesses caused by these unspecified agents are estimated elsewhere (4 ).

Our approach to estimating illness caused by unspecified agents has many limitations.

Hospitalizations and deaths associated with unspecified agents represent 66% and 56%, respectively, of the total estimates.

However, our estimates of foodborne illness caused by unspecified agents relied on reports of acute gastroenteritis.

Estimates of illness were not made for unspecified agents that do not typically result in acute gastroenteritis.

Subtracting the 1,498 deaths caused by the 24 known gastroenteritis pathogens leaves 3,574 acute gastroenteritis deaths caused by unspecified agents.

Unspecified agents are major contributors to the total number of episodes of acute gastroenteritis and foodborne diseases.

To estimate the hospitalizations associated with unspecified agents, we first estimated the number of hospitalizations for acute gastroenteritis.