transmissible

Preposition: between

• animal: Zoonoses are diseases that are transmissible between animals and humans.
• human: It did not appear to be transmissible between humans.

Modifies a noun

• encephalopathies: These brain diseases, called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are thought to be caused by prions.
• encephalopathy: Neither was there any recorded transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in pigs or poultry.
• agent: For viral safety with respect to transmissible agents, see section 4.4.
• virus: So what would happen, if a new, transmissible influenza virus begins spreading through Vietnam or China?
• disease: Heterosexuals at risk of transmissible diseases are also excluded from giving bone marrow.
• infection: Sexually transmissible infections are on the rise within society.

Modifying Another Word

• sexually: Genital warts Certain types of HPV affect the genital area, causing a form of sexually transmissible wart ( condylomata acuminata ).
• readily: This strain was not readily transmissible from human to human.
• easily: Exotic birds carry many diseases that are easily transmissible to people in enclosed environments.
• highly: Thus strain 630 has the genetic attributes of a fully virulent, highly transmissible, drug resistant strain.
• naturally: All the spongiform encephalopathies can be transmitted in the laboratory but only scrapie is known to be naturally transmissible among sheep.
• potentially: Mr Hogg pointed out that: It was clear from SEAC's advice that BSE was potentially transmissible from animals over 2½ years.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The concerns center on the possibility that the H5N1 strain could infect people at a future date and ultimately become transmissible between human beings.

Preposition: in

• way: The development of an SE in a cat had raised a concern that BSE might be transmissible in a way that scrapie was not.

Preposition: from

• animal: Zoonoses - annual report The European Food Safety Authority has published its first annual report on infectious diseases transmissible from animals to humans.

Preposition: by

• transfusion: Infections transmissible by transfusion Over the past 30 years, the viruses that cause hepatitis B, AIDS and hepatitis C have been identified.
• assignment: Copyright is transmissible by assignment, by testamentary disposition or by operation of law, as personal or movable property.