infectiousness
infectivity

The infectiousness of laughter also makes it a particularly interesting social activity to explore.

She grinned back, unable to resist the infectiousness of his smile.

Whether this regimen results in clinical benefit or decreased infectiousness is not known.

A level of infectiousness like this is scarcely reached by other bands."

Antibiotics decrease the duration of infectiousness and thus prevent spread.

Yet the infectiousness seems particularly acute in Westchester and its environs.

What made Freud more dangerous, Farrell thinks, was his infectiousness.

Fortier looked startled for a moment, then was caught up by the sound's infectiousness.

The infectiousness of his giggle made both rider and dragon laugh again, the rider's a full third higher than the dragon's.

It might also be possible to try to make combination pathogens - combining, say, the lethality of one with the infectiousness of another.

Meanwhile, the plateau's infectiousness takes effect.

Some studies report preliminary findings on the origin, infectiousness and likely spread of the 2009 H1N1 virus.

Contrary to popular belief, leprosy ranks lowly in terms of infectiousness and is not congenital.

A R Rahman's score has a certain rhythmic infectiousness.

Having seen the infectiousness of the disease firsthand, Dr. Wu is convinced that it will spread worldwide.

Many experts say that people who carry the virus go through cycles of infectiousness, which peak both early and late in the course of the disease.

Relation between HIV viral load and infectiousness: a model-based analysis.

There's something in the charm and infectiousness of these songs that makes their lasting impression not one of depression, but rather calm."

Laughercize is form of contagious laughter exercise, which works off the natural infectiousness of human joy.

Although treatment is of little direct benefit to the person infected, antibiotics are recommended because they shorten the duration of infectiousness.

Infectiousness of HIV between male homosexual partners.

During the first 2.5 months of an HIV infection a person's infectiousness is twelve times higher due to this high viral load.

Though some memes act much like viruses, infectiousness isn't necessarily bad (think of an infectious grin, or infectious good nature).

The emergence of a pandemic of such virulence and infectiousness that very few humans survive the disease is a credible scenario.

What mattered much more was his imagination and his sense of fun and the infectiousness with which he communicated those qualities to his colleagues.

However, a low infectivity rate may imply something different for an individual.

The measure of infectivity in a population is called incidence.

This method can take up to a week due to cell infectivity time.

"That's how you keep infectivity out of the food chain," she said.

There is much debate within the medical profession as to the infectivity of gonorrhoea.

Treatment with ether either decreases or does not alter their infectivity (1).

The infectivity is enhanced after treatment with trypsin (in some strains).

In fact the infectivity of the virus in question will alter this relationship.

Resistance is variable and may be compromised by environmental conditions which enhance infectivity.

Most enveloped viruses are dependent on the envelope for their infectivity.

When he treated the samples with substances that destroy proteins, on the other hand, they lost their infectivity.

Virulent can describe either disease severity or a pathogen's infectivity.

Relative humidity also affects the infectivity of airborne viruses.

In epidemiology, infectivity refers to the ability of a pathogen to establish an infection.

Infectivity has been shown to positively correlate with virulence.

In traditional infection genetic models, host resistance and pathogen infectivity have associated costs.

Animal products with possible infectivity are used in everything from garden fertilizers to cosmetics, and it is simply impossible for anyone to avoid them all.

This was the first document concerning infectivity.

It is believed to play an important role in cell apoptosis and increase in virus infectivity.

The tail ends in a baseplate which is the control hub for phage infectivity.

Infectivity of hepatitis C virus in plasma after drying and storing at room temperature.

Even following concentration for as long as 20 hours, the infectivity of the recombinant virus was preserved.

The human immunodeficiency virus: infectivity and mechanisms of pathogenesis.

This indicated substantial amounts of persistent infectivity in soil that had been incubated for 26 and 29 months.

Infectivity rates are necessary tools that epidemiologists use to assess and predict the spread of disease in populations.