causal agent

Until this time, rabies was thought to have a single causal agent.

They are causal agents motivated by psychological rather than social concerns.

The therapists attitude is also a very important causal agent in positive patient change.

Currently, the causal agent is thought to be a mycoplasma-like organism.

So there is still some causal agent, it is just further removed from the ultimate effect.

Testing of other munitions continued from 1943-1945, including tests using the causal agent for anthrax.

This is complementary to either removing or reducing the patient's exposure to the causal agents.

Whether events are favorable or adverse, responsibility for them can in principle be attributed to a causal agent.

This disease was the causal agent of the Bengal famine of 1943.

While recoil of the barrel must occur, as described by Newton's third law, it is not a causal agent.

In the case of rotational-vibrational coupling, the causal agent is the force exerted by the spring.

Drugs could also be the causal agent."

A strong association has been made between maternal smoking and childhood overweight/obesity, with nicotine as the single causal agent.

Some of these astrologers have proposed conventional causal agents such as electromagnetism and gravity.

Cause, on the other hand, situates the causal agent prior to the event caused and so requires the to infinitive.

Research in this area has been inconclusive; aluminium accumulation may be a consequence of the disease rather than a causal agent.

For example, genes are very much 'causal agents'.

A plant pathogen, it is the causal agent of brown rot, of stone fruits.

The causal agent (X, in the statement above) can also be seen as complex and multivariate (Cook, 1983).

It is the causal agent of sorghum downy mildew.

Rush believed that the alcoholic loses control over himself and identified the properties of alcohol, rather than the alcoholic's choice, as the causal agent.

Neither causal agent was identified.

It is the causal agent of the peanut foliar disease Late Leaf Spot.

A review concludes the role of mycoplasma as causal agents, cofactors, or opportunistic infections is not clear.

It is reported that the causal agent does not survive in the soil, but can survive in root fragments.