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- adjective Not
apparent ;subclinical .
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Examples
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Dengue cases were classified as inapparent (lack of subjective and objective fever, defined as ≥ 38 °C) or symptomatic dengue.
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In the absence of fever, experimental work on typhus must take into account the possible existence of inapparent forms.
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The role of inapparent typhus in cases of re-infection is indubitably even more important.
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I had realized that repeated virulent inoculations of the donkey did not cause appreciable preventive properties to be developed in the blood of this animal, but in attempting to find a solution to the problem, I tried to ascertain whether the donkey, apparently resistent to the disease, could not contract inapparent typhus and I found that this was sometimes the case.
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In the guinea pig the disease would be inapparent if the temperature were not noted.
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Although benign, inapparent typhus also confers a certain degree of immunity.
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Nicolle's discovery of the inapparent infection orientated the work of scientists towards a hitherto unexplored field of research.
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Lebailly and I then went on to demonstrate that inapparent primary infection typhus, which is exceptional in inoculated guinea pigs, is the only form which the disease takes experimentally in the rat and the mouse.
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Nicolle calls this form of typhus «inapparent» typhus and considers it to be the prototype of a group of latent infectious diseases of the same type.
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It led me to the conception of what I have called inapparent infections.
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