| 词汇 | index-case |
| 释义 | index case noun[ C ] medical specializeduk /ˈɪn.deks ˌkeɪs/ us /ˈɪn.deks ˌkeɪs/ the first known case in a group of people of a disease or medical condition that can be passed on to others, either through infection or in the genes: 指示病例 This man is now thought to be the index case for 80 per cent of the patients who fell ill with the virus in the city.此人现在被认为是城市中80%病毒感染者的指示病例。 We report the occurrence of the syndrome in two generations of a family in which the index case was a 6-year-old boy.我们现在报道一个家庭两代人中出现了综合症，指示病例是一个6岁的男孩。 Most of the other workers are recovering and some have returned to their jobs, but others, including the index case, are still unable to work. We assumed that these patients were more likely to have been contaminated through direct contact with an index case than by a local environmental source. Scientists identified at least 10 separate chains of transmission, each originating from one index case. It was suspected that there might be a link between the outbreak and a probable index case, a food handler who had contracted hepatitis A. We would advise testing family members - children, parents, brothers and sisters - because the disease runs in families, and he may well be the index case in a family that has a lot of celiac disease. ECGs should be obtained in all family members when the index case presents with symptoms. Passing on illness & causing disease aerosolize avirulent communicability community transmission contact tracer contagious epidemic fester infect interepidemic interpandemic mediastinum non-communicable non-infected spreader super-spreader transferable transmissibility transmissible transmit |
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