infectious disease

collocation in English

meaningsofinfectiousanddisease

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infectious
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈfek.ʃəs/us
/ɪnˈfek.ʃəs/
(of a disease) able to be passed from one person, animal, or plant ...
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disease
noun
uk
/dɪˈziːz/us
/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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(Definition ofinfectiousanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Changing patterns ofinfectiousdisease.
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Modeling heterogeneous mixing ininfectiousdiseasedynamics.
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The first concerns an emerginginfectiousdisease.
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Infectiousdiseasepathology and emerging infections.
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Drinking water andinfectiousdisease: establishing the links.
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We used two alternative indicators for vulnerability toinfectiousdisease.
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This is unlikely to be true, asinfectiousdiseasein the tropics is not the same asinfectiousdiseasein the temperate zone.
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I can imagine it being frequently consulted by all health professionals involved ininfectiousdiseasesurveillance.
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Through case notes they also show details about individuals who were infected withinfectiousdisease.
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Counting process models forinfectiousdiseasedata : distinguishing exposure to infection from susceptibility.
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Keeping the herds healthy and alert: implications of predator control forinfectiousdisease.
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Our results show that development will reduce the burden ofinfectiousdisease.
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The subject is similar to an individual with aninfectiousdisease.
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We define an actual reproduction number forinfectiousdiseasetransmission that has taken place.
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As much a concern as the spread ofinfectiousdiseasewas the spread of 'infectious ideas'.
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His research and writing focus on ethical issues associated with genetics andinfectiousdisease.
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Smoking, it argued, was not a 'disease ' in the way cancer or indeedinfectiousdiseasewas.
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These should be further examined as risk factors for pneumonia, and other seriousinfectiousdisease.
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Theinfectiousdiseasehospitals formed the nucleus of the present local government hospitals.
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Many epidemiological studies ofinfectiousdiseaseutilize molecular techniques to differentiate pathogenic isolates.
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It covers both prevailing (growth and development) and more conventional (infectiousdisease) topics within bioarchaeology.
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This tool was developed to study the potential spread of aninfectiousdisease.
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Is pneumonia aninfectiousdisease?
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There isinfectiousdiseasebenefit.
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