(superl.) Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
(superl.) Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.
(v. t.) To black or foul with soot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predominant NK effector cells and LAK cell precursors were shown to be Leu 19-CD8+ in the PBMC of sooty mangabeys and Leu19+ CD8- in the PBMC of rhesus macaques as determined by panning depletion techniques and FMF analysis.
(2) It is suggested that the different adult facial morphologies in the sooty mangabey and crab-eating macaque are the result of changes in the rates of remodelling events that may be coupled with different patterns of sutural growth (which could not be studied by SEM).
(3) Four pairs of sooty mangabey monkeys (Cercocebus atys) were inoculated with serial, 10-fold dilutions of Mycobacterium leprae.
(4) Sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys), an African primate species indigenous to West Africa, however, are infected with SIV (SIVsm) both in captivity and in the wild (P. Fultz, personal communication).
(5) Two strains were isolated from ticks of the species Ornithodoros capensis Neumann 1901 collected from the nests of Sooty Terns, Sterna fuscata Linnaeus 1766 on coral cays off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.
(6) To establish whether blood from such seronegative but PWM- and PCR-positive monkeys can transmit infection, naive macaques were transfused with whole blood (n = 2) or cultured cells and supernatant fluid (n = 2) from two seronegative but PWM- and PCR-positive sooty mangabeys.
(7) We derived two infectious molecular clones of SIV from sooty mangabey monkeys (Cercocebus atys) and compared them by restriction enzyme mapping and limited DNA sequencing to other known primate lentiviruses.
(8) Sooty Manchester witnessed the birth of modern environmental concerns thanks to the scientist Robert Angus Smith.
(9) Data indicate that both NK and LAK cell activities in the PBMC of sooty mangabeys were significantly (P less than 0.01) greater than those in rhesus macaques.
(10) In Australia, levels of lead and mercury were higher in black noddy (A. minutus) and lower for sooty tern; and cadmium levels were highest for brown noddy (A. stolidus) and sooty tern, and lowest for black noddy.
(11) Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), HIV-2 and SIV isolates from sooty mangabey, stump-tailed macaque, rhesus macaque and African green monkey (SIVSM, SIVStM, SIVMAC and SIVAGM) were used for comparative analysis.
(12) In particular, we compared the nucleotide sequences of whole genomes, gene region by gene region, between a given pair of viruses, including four types of SIVs--isolated from mandrills (Papio sphinx), African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops), sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)--as well as HIVs.
(13) We have studied whether a transfer of antibodies can prevent HIV-2 and SIVsm (SIV of sooty mangabey origin) infection in cynomolgus monkeys.
(14) Viral isolates used for comparison were HIV-1IIIb, HIV-2ROD, and SIV isolates from macaque (SIVmac), sooty mangabey (SIVsm-UCD), African green monkey (SIVagm), and stump-tailed macaque (SIVstm-UCD).
(15) Naturally-acquired leprosy has been reported in nine-banded armadillos captured in the southern United States, a chimpanzee from Sierra Leone, and in two "sooty" mangabey monkeys from Nigeria.
(16) The PBj14 isolate of simian immunodeficiency virus from sooty mangabey monkeys (SIVSMM-PBj14) is the most acutely pathogenic primate lentivirus so far described, always causing fatal disease in pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) within 8 days of inoculation.
(17) In his youth, Leeds was a city of picture palaces, dance halls, sooty factories, grand Victorian offices, markets, elegant shops, side-street enterprises and rock-solid, Yorkshire confidence.
(18) In Puerto Rico, lead and cadmium levels were highest in bridled tern (Sterna anaethetus), and mercury levels were highest in sooty (S. fuscata) and roseate tern (S. dougallii).
(19) We have employed the use of restriction fragment-length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of chromosomal DNA of M. leprae isolates, including human isolates from geographically distinct regions of the world and isolates from a Sooty Mangabey monkey and an armadillo, to assess the relatedness among these isolates.
(20) SIV has been isolated from macaques (mac), African green monkeys (agm), sooty mangabeys (sm), and mandrills (mnd).