Infectivity
In epidemiology , infectivity refers to the ability of a pathogen to establish an infection. It should ... of infectivity in a population. External links http www.medterms.com script main art.asp ..
Viral infectivity factor
Viral infectivity factor , or Vif, is a protein found in HIV and other retrovirus es. Its role is to disrupt the antiviral activity of the human enzyme APOBEC See also APOBEC3G by targeting it for ubiquitination ..
Microbicide
A microbicide is any compound or substance whose purpose is to reduce the infectivity of microbes, such as virus es or bacterium bacteria . See also Antibiotics Bactericide Fungicide Microbicides for sexually ..
FFU
of metrication . Focus forming units, a term used to describe viral infectivity Femur fibula ..
Peplomer
for both host biology host specificity and viral infectivity . The term peplomer is typically used ..
Vif
Factor , a statistical term Virtual Interface , a networking term Viral infectivity factor of retrovirus ..
Host factor
and infectivity of a microbe. Host factors that may vary in a population and affect disease susceptibility ..
Phenol-soluble modulin
destruction of white blood cell s, presumably the key to the higher infectivity. Expression of the psm ..
Plasmodium atheruri
with 8 to 16 merozoite s, gametocyte s and infectivity to Anopheles species and a chronic form ..
Strawberry vein banding virus
available at that time, Stenger and coworkers were unable to demonstrate the infectivity of the clone ... al., 1988 . The infectivity of the cloned SVBV genome in pSVBV E3 and completion of Koch s postulates ..
Epidemiological methods
Percent attributable risk Levin s attributable risk Other measures Virulence and Infectivity ..
Hemagglutination assay
. In contrast to Plaque assay or LD sub 50 sub , HA does not give any measure of viral infectivity ..
Spumavirus
of the in vitro infectivity and cytopathic effect of human foamy virus by dideoxynucleosides ..
Hemagglutination
preventing them from settling out of suspension. Usefully, agglutination is rarely linked to infectivity ..
Mycobacterium africanum
route from individuals with open cases of disease. It has a similar degree of infectivity to the regular ..
Dianthovirus
their infectivity 1 . No lipids have so far been reported 1 . Genome These viruses have segmented, bipartite ..
Antibody dependent enhancement
expert date July 2008 Antibody dependent enhancement ADE occurs when antiviral antibody antibodies enhance virus viral entry into host cells , leading to increased infectivity in the host cells. ADE i ...