avidity


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Synonyms for avidity

the quality or condition of being voracious

excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves

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Synonyms for avidity

a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

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Throughout the discussions, the president affirmed Egypt's avidity to continue communicating with investors in order to learn more of the obstacles they face and to help them overcome these obstacles.
In this meta-analysis, studies conducted in Turkey between 2007 and 2017 were analyzed, and differences in seroprevalences between provinces were compared by evaluating Rubella IgG, IgM, and IgG avidity results in pregnancy in this period.
Avidity Science, a manufacturer and supplier in automated animal watering systems, water purification and treatment systems, environmental monitoring software, and laboratory equipment, serving the scientific research community, has launched its golden anniversary celebrations.
Nineteen of the 20 specimens tested with a mumps immunoglobulin G avidity assay had high-avidity antibodies; these cases were classified as secondary vaccine failures,* and one result was indeterminate.
Efficient virus replication is dependent, in part, on the concerted activities of HA and NA binding and eluting cells and is a balance maintained by matching HA substitutions that alter receptor-binding avidity with changes to NA stalk length and sialidase activity (24-26).
27 September 2018 - Wisconsin, US-based water purification systems provider Avidity Science has completed its acquisition of Ohio, US-based filtration products supplier CT Chemicals Inc.
Avidity Science revealed on Monday the completion of the acquisition of CT Chemicals Inc for an undisclosed amount.
AMV564 is a bivalent, bispecific T-cell engager that binds both CD33 and CD3 with strong avidity and results in T-cell directed lysis of CD33-expressing myeloid cells.
PERPETRATORSIt is a tacit admission that the continent has been bogged down by monumental corruption, and a call to arms to wage war on the destructive vice that has for too long been gnawing at the roots of Africa's development agenda with great avidity. It therefore seems that the summit was more about wishful thinking than reality, and those who attended it were at once the right people they are the continent's leaders who should drive the anti-corruption agenda and the wrong people because half of them are the major perpetrators while the other half have been hopelessly ensnared in its tentacles.
In addition to the quantity of antibodies, the avidity of antibodies seems to be an important contributing factor to the protective capacity of vaccines.