low prevalence
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflowandprevalence
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low
adjective
uk/ləʊ/us/loʊ/
not measuring much from the base to ...
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prevalence
noun[U]
uk/ˈprev.əl.əns/us/ˈprev.əl.əns/
the fact that something is very common or ...
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(Definition oflowandprevalencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflow prevalence
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Therefore, thelowprevalenceobserved was expected in this study.
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There is alowprevalenceamongst children born in 1966.
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In situations oflowprevalence, vaccination alone is preferable.
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Thelowprevalencemakes group comparison of those judging episodes as ' always a distinct disorder ' problematic.
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Nevertheless, thelowprevalenceof symptomatic forms of the infection leads to major methodological difficulties.
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The insensitivity of k is shown as a very slow increase atlowprevalencevalues.
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Thelowprevalencein kittens suggests that, as predicted, the transmammary route of infection is infrequent.
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Thelowprevalenceand intensity of infection did not allow any analysis.
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Secondly, the disorder'slowprevalencerequired the use of expanded phenotypes in analyses.
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This failure may owe to the relativelylowprevalenceof alcohol dependence in our adolescent sample.
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Many populations show a verylowprevalenceand a few populations show a high prevalence.
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Such data clearly do not rule out alowprevalenceof the infection in bream.
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Specifically, there are many populations withlowprevalence, and a few populations with high prevalence.
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However, due tolowprevalenceand intensity, the evidence is not conclusive.
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Although labourers are lowest paid, yet they have alowprevalenceof the disease.
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This requires simple diagnostic tools that are reliable underlowprevalenceconditions.
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For example, should alllowprevalence, chronic conditions receive this type of input?
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This may lead to waning compliance whenlowprevalenceconditions have prevailed for years.
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By retaining items which had high orlowprevalencein the study sample it has achieved a wider applicability.
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In the first,lowprevalencegroup, the main intervention strategy is immunization of specific groups or of the general population.
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In general, parasites with high prevalence in the samples were more dominant than those withlowprevalencevalues.
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