Sentence examples for weakly competent from inspiring English sources
Tick vectors that transmit this pathogen interact with strongly and weakly competent reservoir hosts, and this variation in reservoir competence within host communities should be considered when predicting risk for infection with B. microti based on animal community composition.
Our finding that Anseriformes were weakly competent reservoir hosts for WNV is consistent with the findings of the South African study, which evaluated three species of ducks.
Our study also coincided with both the Egyptian and South African studies in finding Rock Doves (pigeons) incompetent but other species of doves weakly competent.
In light of evidence that white-tailed deer are often infected with these pathogens throughout the range of A. americanum ticks (28 – 30 ), we hypothesize that white-tailed deer may be weakly competent reservoirs for these pathogens.
Infection of nymphs by other tickborne pathogens, such as B. burgdorferi, is affected by the presence of strongly and weakly competent reservoir hosts in the same communities (34, 35 ).
Testing a broad sample of wildlife species would enable us not only to identify which species transmit the pathogen, but also which species act as weakly competent or incompetent hosts, providing blood meals to ticks but rarely or never transmitting the pathogen (33 ).
Notably, cld7 does not colocalize with MMP3 and only palmitoylation-competent cld7 weakly colocalizes with MMP14.
To clarify whether competent cells in such cultures are rare or just weakly transformable, a late-log culture was transformed with donor DNA as described previously, giving NovR/CFU of 1.15 × 10−5 (Table 1), and 8 NovR transformants were sequenced.
The increased susceptibility of post-septic animals to subsequent infectious insults either to weakly virulent pathogens or to low pathogen loads known to be innocuous in immune-competent animals provided a firm proof-of-concept of sepsis-induced immune suppression [36,37].
The increased susceptibility of post-septic animals to subsequent infectious insults either to weakly virulent pathogens or to low pathogen loads known to be innocuous in immune-competent animals provided a firm proof-of-concept of sepsis-induced immune suppression [ 36, 37].
