The phrase
"susceptible hosts" refers to individuals who are easily affected or prone to something, such as a disease or infection.
Full definition
The team notes that the results of their study suggest that current means of testing and approving food additives may not be adequate to prevent use of chemicals that promote diseases driven by low - grade inflammation and / or which will cause disease primarily
in susceptible hosts.
In
genetically susceptible hosts, the inability to develop the immune system properly can have negative consequences like inflammatory bowel disease or any other kinds of complex immune disorders.»
At that point — with most of the population infected but without symptoms and others having died — cholera fades away because there are
few susceptible hosts.
But while it is tempting to conclude that warmer temperatures have created a more hospitable environment for disease vectors like the sand fly, it may simply be that humans have carried the bacillus to a place where it has found
more susceptible hosts.
They just haven't encountered
a susceptible host.»
For a pathogen to persist, there needs to be
susceptible hosts to which an infected host can pass the disease.
«The chance of a virus finding
a susceptible host is just higher.»
Ferrets are
susceptible hosts, and cats are somewhat resistant.
Control of canine distemper outbreaks includes the removal of carcasses of animals which have died from the disease, vaccination of susceptible domestic species to decrease the number of
susceptible hosts, and a reduction in wildlife populations which also reduces the number of potential hosts.