infectiousness
Americannoun
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Modifying this anchor molecule can significantly change the properties of the viruses to their advantage -- by increasing their infectiousness or enabling them to switch hosts.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2024
Technically speaking, gain-of-function is a method of modifying a pathogen in the lab to gauge its infectiousness in humans, the better to develop countermeasures such as vaccines.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024
While the at-home tests aren’t always great at catching infections early on, they are our best available tool to measure infectiousness.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2023
By the beginning of 2022 Omicron had become the dominant strain in the U.S., its seeming boundless infectiousness surpassing that of all previous variants.
From Scientific American • Dec. 14, 2022
As sickness is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sickness is solitude; when the infectiousness of the disease deters them who should assist from coming; even the physician dares scarce come.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John
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