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0 the first known case in a group of people of a disease or medical condition that can be passed on to others, either through infection or in the genes:
This man is now thought to be the index case for 80 per cent of the patients who fell ill with the virus in the city.
We report the occurrence of the syndrome in two generations of a family in which the index case was a 6-year-old boy.
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