initial infection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinitialandinfection
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initial
adjective[before noun]
uk/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/us/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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infection
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˈfek.ʃən/us/ɪnˈfek.ʃən/
a condition in which bacteria or viruses that cause disease have entered ...
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(Definition ofinitialandinfectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The frequency with which the carrier state develops is markedly influenced by the age of the patient at the time ofinitialinfection.
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With culling during the first month in an area around theinitialinfection, profits increase up to 500-fold.
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In the chronic model the first reinfection was performed 1 year after theinitialinfection, followed by a second reinfection 10 days later.
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We assume aninitialinfectionprevalence of between 2 and 10 % at the start of the simulated epidemics.
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Initial versus recurrent infection p<0.05;initialinfectionversus chronic carditis p<0.001.
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At the start of the study, duplicate samples were taken on two consecutive days to determine theinitialinfectionstatus of all lactating quarters.
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The best protection seems to be in developed countries, especially when re-exposure is to rotaviruses serotypically related to those that caused theinitialinfection.
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After theinitialinfectionof herring, the prevalence of infection did not change dramatically.
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This constitutes a range of assumptions about the effect of the nematode experiment in terms of generating aninitialinfectionprevalence in the challenged subflock.
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Serum samples were collected beforeinitialinfectionand on day 10 after the third infection.
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Alternatively,initialinfectioncould come from contact with infected adults.
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At the start of the experiment all fish were infected and the solid dots denote the numbers infected at various points in time frominitialinfection.
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It is interesting to note that the site of theinitialinfectionis not the most devastated region, but rather the region just to the right.
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Infection exclusion duringinitialinfectionin cell culture was documented by labeling each isolate with a different fluorescent dye.
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All began with aninitialinfectionof salmonella typhimurium.
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The time-lag is long, some 20 to 25 years from theinitialinfectionto when the symptoms appear.
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The investigators offered the explanation that seropositive tortoises had survived aninitialinfection, then developed chronic disease.
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Pathogenesis is a process in which aninitialinfectionbecomes a disease.
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Initialinfectionis done via the mouth.
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