英语词汇“patient zero”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

patient zero

noun [usually in singular] chiefly US

Used to refer to the person identified as the first carrier of a communicable disease in an outbreak of related cases: patient zero for the outbreak was suspected to be a 2-year-old boy epidemiologists know who Patient Zero is, and they have him in isolation figurative she was patient zero in a cyberbullying epidemic...

With meningitis outbreaks, he said, there is no "patient zero."
Patient Zero was a grandmother in New Delhi whose lungs filled up with fluid from trying to fight the flu.
As any parent of schoolgoing kids knows, headlice outbreaks are fairly common, and targeting Patient Zero is usually impossible.

Compare with index case.

单词	patient zero
释义	patient zero noun [usually in singular] chiefly US Used to refer to the person identified as the first carrier of a communicable disease in an outbreak of related cases: patient zero for the outbreak was suspected to be a 2-year-old boy epidemiologists know who Patient Zero is, and they have him in isolation figurative she was patient zero in a cyberbullying epidemic... With meningitis outbreaks, he said, there is no "patient zero." Patient Zero was a grandmother in New Delhi whose lungs filled up with fluid from trying to fight the flu. As any parent of schoolgoing kids knows, headlice outbreaks are fairly common, and targeting Patient Zero is usually impossible. Compare with index case.
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