probable source
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprobableandsource
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probable
adjective
uk/ˈprɒb.ə.bəl/us/ˈprɑː.bə.bəl/
likely to be true or likely ...
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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We have also found theprobablesourceand route of transmission in a local outbreak and linked it to a geographically distinct outbreak.
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Our conclusion is that eggs were theprobablesourceand not just the vehicle in most of these outbreaks.
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Our investigation suggests contaminated egg powder to be theprobablesourceof infection in this outbreak.
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Contamination of the guest bathrooms is aprobablesourceof infection.
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Here the system recognizes the material is the mostprobablesourceof the failure, but because the data is faulty at all inspections the system cannot eliminate other failure hypotheses.
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Epidemiologic investigation suggested food as theprobablesourcefor the guests.
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In addition, monitoring and diagnosis is per formed on-line in real time with the intent of identifying problems as soon as possible and determining the mostprobablesource.
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We have taken direct action on mutton and lamb because it has been called in question as aprobablesourceof the epidemic.
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Theprobablesourceof infection was via commercial feedstuffs.
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To let in the onlyprobablesourceof infection once more is to take a severe risk with meat prices again.
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In most cases theprobablesourceof infection was imported feedingstuffs.
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First, time had elapsed before the infection at theprobablesourcefarm was disclosed.
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The moment that it became clear that theprobablesource—not yet proved at that stage—was protein from other ruminants, namely sheep, we banned it.
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Unless we are clear about theprobablesourceof danger we are doomed to spend money without purpose, without plan and without direction.
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It would now seem that lightning has struck twice, with the preliminary finding that imported meat was theprobablesourceof the current foot and mouth disease outbreak.
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Epidemiologic evidence must implicate water or volatile compounds from the water that have entered the air as theprobablesourceof the illness.
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For most of the middle of the 20th century it was a health hazard and its shell-fish aprobablesourceof food poisoning.
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A moreprobablesourceof infection-induced malnutrition is the nutrient malabsorption associated with parasite presence in the body.
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