Sentences with phrase «chain of transmission»

Reducing the number of cases to zero demands identifying and breaking all new chains of transmission, a task that still faces major obstacles — not least the fast approaching rainy season.

Their cohort study analyzed HIV testing data collected by the San Diego County Department of Public Health and the San Diego Primary Infection Cohort between 1996 and 2012, and used genetic analysis to identify local chains of transmission.

But Ball, Simon - Loriere, and colleagues approach this conclusion most cautiously, stressing that epidemiologic factors, such as «increased circulation in urban areas that in turn led to larger chains of transmission,» likely were the most important driver.

«An entire chain of transmission can be prevented if staff at a receiving facility know about a patient's multridrug - resistant organism status,» Buser said.

«Genome sequencing has played an important role in identifying and confirming chains of transmission throughout this outbreak, in the absence of good epidemiological data.

And behind the sayings of Jesus in their Greek versions lies a chain of transmission which began in a Semitic language.

After more than seven months, the SARS outbreak ended because public - health officials, doctors, and nurses managed to break the chain of transmission — at considerable risk to themselves and despite superspreader anomalies, such as an elderly woman who managed to infect 16 other people as she waited for treatment in an emergency room near Toronto.

Even without making much effort, the team vaccinated around 80 per cent of dogs in the places they visited, but they are not yet certain how many dogs have to be vaccinated before the chain of transmission is broken.

In this fashion, the research team created five different «chains of transmission» of Oldowan toolmakers, which produced a total of more than 6000 flakes.

For a few centuries, leper colonies could be found throughout Europe, but the Black Death eventually killed most lepers and thus broke the chain of transmission.

The goal is to break the chain of transmission of the debilitating disease, which stubbornly persists in India despite the availability of a drug regimen that can cure it.

Diseases such as HIV, however, which almost certainly began as a spillover from chimpanzees, are no longer considered to be zoonotic as the chain of transmission from humans to other humans is continuous and no longer relies on spillover to sustain transmission.

So is this case a spillover or part of a human - to - human chain of transmission?

That strategy can be used to break the chains of transmission and reduce the number of cases.

The current strategy is to take care of patients as well as possible and break the chain of transmission by preventing others from getting infected.

By combining this molecular chain of transmission with the social chain of transmission, the researchers will try to «establish who infected whom, and where, and how,» Milton says.

Bjork worked with local health officials to piece together the chain of transmission and to help mount an effective response.

Now the task is to track down every chain of transmission to snuff the virus out, he says.

«There is still a considerable effort required to stop all chains of transmission in the affected countries, prevent the spread of the disease to neighbouring countries and to safely re-activate life - saving essential health services,» WHO said.

The results highlight the significance of breaking the chain of transmission of externalizing behavior across generations.