transmissibility
Americannoun
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Dr Ngongo added that a new variant of mpox with "high potential for higher transmissibility" had also been detected in DR Congo.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
“I’m confident that we’ll find it in other states. Its behavior and transmissibility within and between cattle herds is still pretty much a black box,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
An emerging potential epidemic demands our attention—and our full resources—when two features start changing for the worse: severity and transmissibility.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2024
“And the thought is that somehow, because of its rapid spread in the Congo, it may have acquired an enhanced transmissibility genetic component fairly recently.”
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
The transmissibility of contagious abortion of cows appears to have been demonstrated experimentally for the first time by Brauer.
From Contagious Abortion of Cows by MacNeal, Ward J.
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