inoculation

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Furthermore, they evaluated calcium's effect on enhancing plant resistance through controlled inoculation trials, providing a comprehensive view of how calcium supplementation could potentially bolster the potato plant's defense mechanisms against bacterial wilt.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2024

“All samples with a PCR positive result are going through egg inoculation tests, a gold-standard for determining if infectious virus is present,” they wrote.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2024

It is meant to be administered, alongside inoculation for diphtheria, tetanus, polio and others, from the very first weeks of life.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2024

To his parents, the skills Trey was learning and his passion for the work felt like an inoculation against a deadly threat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

Other prisoners said he was lucky and would never get it again—that a mild case was like an inoculation.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren