(a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
(a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
(a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
Example Sentences:
(1) No acute cases of clinical or anicteric hepatitis were in observed in 75% of 161 patients who had been exposed to hepatitis A by an oral surgeon during the contagious period.
(2) The SC strains comprise those from contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) and some from goats.
(3) This article reviews certain legislative points of view which should help every dentist in their decision as to whether to treat these so-called "infectious" or "contagious" patients.
(4) That’s in the normal range, but should it go to 37.5 you may be whisked off to a holding centre as a suspect Ebola case, where – even if your fever is flu or more likely here, malaria – you will be detained with people who really do have this dangerously contagious virus.
(5) The accumulated information on low rates of occupational transmission of HIV makes unwarranted the treatment of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or HIV infection as if they were highly contagious in the health care setting.
(6) In this context, the present article makes an analysis of the main ethical and legal problems posed by HIV infection, in the framework of Portuguese law, with special focus on: a) Conflict between the necessary protection of public health by the State and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizens; b) Inadequacy of the existent laws to fight contagious diseases to HIV infection; c) Discrimination; d) Testing and compulsory hospitalization versus informed consent; e) Confidentiality; f) Voluntary contagion.
(7) The ELISA and an immunoblotting technique were used to study F38-type mycoplasmas - an important cause of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia - and a number of related mycoplasma species, subspecies, types or serogroups.
(8) Measles can spread when it reaches a community in the US where groups of people are unvaccinated.” The highly contagious viral respiratory disease is often accompanied by a blotchy rash, fever, runny nose, cough, body aches, watery eyes or pink eye and tiny white spots in the mouth.
(9) This paper extends a mathematical model developed by the authors for describing the stochastic process underlying the etiology of non-contagious progressive diseases.
(10) Four pony mares were readily infected with the organism of contagious equine metritis by intracervical inoculation and one by coitus with an infected stallion.
(11) The kinetics of inactivation of two viruses (the Talfan and the Canine Contagious Hepatitis viruses) which were obtained after contact with 10 disinfectants commonly used in agriculture and the food industry are compared.
(12) Reproduction of contagious equine metritis 1977 in Pony mares was achieved with cultures of an unclassified Gram-negative coccobacillus.
(13) The nurses’ statement said they had to “interact with Mr. Duncan with whatever protective equipment was available”, even as he produced “a lot of contagious fluids”.
(14) This article reports on the phenomenon of contagious hysteria in a village in West Bengal.
(15) Those who believed in the contagiousness of the disease hoped to be able to control it with preventive and hygienic measures resulting from their findings on the bacteriology of the epidemic.
(16) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
(17) The abortive form is revealed by contagious abortions whose frequency depends principally on the composition of the animal population of the farm; during its evolution, numerous very high positive serological reactions are observed.
(18) We will know more in the coming days.” She said inquiries will seek to establish if the outbreak is linked to cases of a highly contagious strain in chickens in the Netherlands and Germany.
(19) Finally, it does not seem logical, for airlines learn about only a small fraction of the contagious persons who travel, and public health is much more greatly endangered by unknown contagious persons.
(20) Literature concerning Adamantiadès-Behçet disease is silent with regard to its contagiousness.
Transmissible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(2) It has been shown by LM and transmission electron microscopy that cells with blebs are viable and capable of mitotic activity.
(3) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(4) The transmission of alcoholism and its effects are thereby lessened for future generations of children of alcoholics.
(5) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(6) The intent of this study was to investigate, by three-dimensional photoelastic analysis, the stress transmission that occurs with four commonly used retentive systems.
(7) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
(8) These results indicate that both racemic and L-baclofen inhibit trigeminal transmission in man, probably because they interfere with excitatory transmission through the interneurons of the lateral reticular formation.
(9) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
(10) Neuromuscular transmission was measured using "train-of-four" stimulation.
(11) Such identification would have a useful application in affirming the possible zoonotic transmission of animal source Giardia species to humans.
(12) Neuromuscular transmission and muscle sensitivity to acetylcholine (ACh) were studied in vitro in soleus and extensor digitorium longus (EDL) from 6 hr to 4 months after the injection of toxin.3.
(13) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
(14) Transmission in these pathways is enhanced in Parkinson's disease.
(15) There was a considerably greater risk of transmission by younger children.
(16) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(17) The possibility that HBV and HIV act as cofactors for each other's transmission could not be ruled out.
(18) Using serial-sectioning techniques for conventional transmission and high-voltage electron microscopy, we characterized the ultrastructural features and synaptic contacts of the sensory cell in tentacles of Hydra.
(19) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(20) Routine vaccination of travellers to endemic areas cannot be recommended; however, for people travelling to regions with a high transmission rate vaccination should be considered.