infected host
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinfectedandhost
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infected
adjective
uk/ɪnˈfek.tɪd/us/.ɪnˈfek.t̬ɪd/
(of a person or animal) affected by an organism that can ...
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host
noun
uk/həʊst/us/hoʊst/
someone who ...
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(Definition ofinfectedandhostfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Note that such a dose dependency would have to exist in aninfectedhost, with high numbers of bacteria already present.
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It is for such reasons that these bacterial gene products have long been considered attractive candidates for engendering an autoimmune response in theinfectedhost.
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Thus, within theinfectedhost, the balance between multiple signals shapes the quality of the adaptive immune response (fig. 1).
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One unit of study, which is commonly employed to investigate the population ecology of microparasitic organisms (the viruses, bacteria and protozoa), is theinfectedhost.
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Labelled glucose synthesized by the liver ofinfectedhosthad three possible fates.
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This was not the case two hours into the experiment, as at this time the acetate overload was fully utilized by theinfectedhost.
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However, this resulted in a significant number ofinfectedhostcells remaining unbroken in the subsequent homogenization, which possibly prevented separation in the final gradient.
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When a lineage was reinoculated on the sameinfectedhostplant, survival was much greater (data not shown).
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Infection of the sandfly begins after taking a bloodmeal from aninfectedhost.
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Thus, the phenomenon of parasitism significantly lowering the metal content of theinfectedhostshould not be considered as universal.
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The value of d is the ratio of the log of theinfectedhostfraction (numerator) to that of the corresponding parasites (denominator).
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Alterations ininfectedhostbehaviour occurred and were related to the number of larvae recovered from the brain.
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These chlamydial products are secreted frominfectedhostcells and provoke inflammatory responses and adaptive immune responses.
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In general, the most frequentlyinfectedhostat a given site was not the numerically dominant species.
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Resources that theinfectedhostwould have allocated to reproduction are free for reallocation to host maintenance and growth, or diversion into parasite growth and reproduction.
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With respect to toxic metals, however, the uptake of metals by acanthocephalans and the related reduction of metal levels in host tissues might be advantageous for theinfectedhost.
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By contrast, uninfected females that feed to repletion on aninfectedhosthave no opportunity to transmit the infection to new vertebrate hosts because they die after oviposition.
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