Example sentences for: gastroenteritis

How can you use “gastroenteritis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For total cases of gastroenteritis, we used a normal distribution with a mean of the original point estimate, and a standard deviation of 20 percent of the original estimate.

  • This is especially important in a poor area of the world where the prevalence of gastroenteritis is high [ 39 ] . Numerous studies have shown a protective effect of breastfeeding in relation to infectious diarrhea [ 5 40 ] .

  • To represent the uncertainty of the assumption that the portion of gastroenteritis cases of unknown origin attributable to foodborne pathogens is the same as for cases of known origin, we draw the portion of unknown cases from a normal distribution around the portion of known cases (after it is calculated, since it varies with each iteration) with a standard deviation of 8 percentage points.

  • The total cases from unknown sources is then calculated by estimating the total cases of gastroenteritis in the U.S. and subtracting the cases of known origins.

  • Not only does this percentage affect the estimated number of foodborne cases of that disease, but it dominates the overall estimated percentage of gastroenteritis cases attributed to food, and thus the estimate for cases of unknown etiology.


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