index case

Index Case, a central point of reference in a disease outbreak.

"There is one thing about the two index cases that I find curious.

Now, let's 1ook at the index case in each incidence.

The trick, then, if you wanted to create a much wider outbreak, was to increase the number of index cases.

If this is an outbreak of some sort, maybe we can isolate the index case."

The index case is the first patient that indicates the existence of an outbreak.

"All the index cases from these recent outbreaks have had some sort of chronic illness," jack said.

At the time of diagnosis, 217 of the present 240 index cases had spouses.

No commonalties between that one and our Index Case here.

But only a handful, and you didn't start with one of those as your Index Case.

The list was just as long as the lists he had for the infectious disease index cases.

I even have the vaccination gun used to infect the index cases."

What have you learned about this index case ?"

The index case, a mare, was housed with 19 other horses after falling ill, and died two days later.

The source of the virus was most likely frothy nasal discharge from the index case.

The Stevens case, they believed, was the index case.

All sputum cultures from the index case have continued to grow the epidemic strain.

A minute later they were in Room 1, temporary home of the Index Case.

Seeing such a profusion of items made him wonder if there had been anything unique sent from central supply to the index cases.

Glass is the second indie album by Index Case, released in 2002.

G. was the first identified case, the index case, in an outbreak of an unknown virus.

The woman, she saw, called the Index Case, was attractive, or had been so a day or two previously.

There was the index case, and the subsequent cases extended from it by contact, either directly or through a vector like an insect.

So he's still the index case.

We have blood samples from the Index Case.