0 present participle of harbour
1 to think about or feel something, usually over a long period:
2 to protect someone or something bad, especially by hiding that person or thing when the police are looking for him, her, or it:
to harbour a criminal
3 to contain the bacteria, etc. that can cause a disease to spread:
This problem is compounded by the presence, within the ranch, of patches of thicket harbouring untreated populations of tsetse.
Sera has been systematically collected from mice and rats either harbouring a schistosome infection, or vaccinated with the isolated membrane preparation.
Actual sample sizes are the numbers of amphipods harbouring at least enough worms to be included in the regression, and are given in parentheses.
We were, therefore, forced to conclude that animals inhabiting this region must be susceptible to infection and capable of harbouring the trypanosome.
Isolates harbouring the act gene differed from act genedeficient ones with respect to haemolytic activity on blood agar plates.
Screening after 6 and 27 days identified copepods harbouring infective procercoids.
This region therefore appeared to be a likely candidate for harbouring the sublingual glandspecific difference between the two alleles.
The maximum repetition of an identical genotype within a host was of 22 for 122 worms analysed within a rat harbouring 343 schistosomes.
