"The potential is there that this is not as isolated a phenomenon as we might hope it is, " he said.
In 2006 researchers from the Hebrew University in Israel isolated a variant of the virus that causes Newcastle disease, a highly contagious disease in birds that can kill.
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Indeed, he has found that AAPB are particularly prone to such infections and his team have isolated a virus that seems to be specific to this type of bacterium.
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Essentially, they isolated a rectangular column from the surrounding snowpack and used a snow saw to start an artificial fracture by cutting through the weak underlying frost layer, then watched what happened.
On Thursday, the agency's fisheries and ecology team isolated a 100m area of the river next to Ravensbury Park in Merton and used equipment which generated low voltage electric currents to check how many fish survived.
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Previous popes, such as Saint John Paul II, who was raised in communist Poland, had little love for totalitarian states but believed that sanctions impoverished ordinary Cubans and isolated a government that might be won over through careful diplomacy.
Myler nudged the Saints back ahead with a difficult penalty after Mustoe was isolated at a ruck.
The insurer may overlook a past isolated incident where a dog jumped up and scratched someone.
People will confront it as a normal element of their lives - not something that is isolated in a building.
The center was in a big bleak house built in the early nineteenth century, isolated in a dip in the middle of the moors, beside a river.
After a series of isolated incidents, a Pakistani soldier was killed on 6 January in a border skirmish.
"The scenes from Upton Park were a regrettable but isolated example of a culture that the football community has worked tirelessly to eradicate from our game, " the spokesman added.
If it is isolated to a particular sport, is only the head coach held accountable?
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If you live in an apartment, keep the box isolated in a small room.
She complained of being neglected and isolated as a result of being so far from home.
At the top, God stands isolated in a stained-glass window and personifies the ancient Jewish belief that He was alone.
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Isolated by a desert of grass, their reservation is a bleak reminder that rural poverty can be much worse than urban.
This is an election about the big issues and it includes whether we're isolated as a country or cooperate internationally with Europe.
In reality, singer Brian Wilson was lamenting the fact that he felt isolated as a consequence of being so ahead of his time.
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To address fears of becoming isolated from a sometimes unstable neighbourhood, Michelle Bachelet, the current socialist president, has stressed closer ties with Latin America.
After being isolated for a long time, new atheists find themselves in phalanx with dozens or hundreds of others who think like they do.
"Increasingly forests in Africa are becoming fragmented and elephant populations are being isolated in a sea of farms and villages, " according to Lori Eggert.
These guidances likely would not have been issued if the federal regulators had viewed the issues they addressed as being isolated to a few banks.
Marine officials said that according to initial reports, the alleged attacker was isolated in a barracks building by law-enforcement personnel before killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Flash uses a tiny isolated bar of polysilicon called a dummy gate.
Major TOM BRYANT (Spokesman, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division): About a month ago, we started receiving intelligence from our Iraqi partners, reports that indicated a number of insurgents operating in this area northeast of Samarra, a very isolated, rural area, a lot of farms, a couple of small villages, but kind of a no man's land.
Seoul also has been bracing for a possible missile test by North Korea since the isolated state moved a medium-range missile to its east coast last week.
Guatemala is a country with a diverse population, where isolated rural communities speak a total of 23 different languages.
Diversa, a California biotech, has isolated an enzyme from a volcanic crater in Russia that is now being used to help whiten paper, reducing the need for chlorine dioxide, an environmental pollutant.
It is a year since the prime minister found himself isolated in Europe at a summit determining the EU's future.
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