0 past simple and past participle of excrete
1 to get rid of material such as solid waste or urine from the body:
Transmission to humans occurs when eggs of the tapeworm, excreted by the final hosts (usually foxes but also dogs, wolves and cats), are ingested accidentally.
Viral agents of gastroenteritis can be excreted in low numbers, and electron microscopy may not be a sufficiently sensitive detection technique.
However, survival times of excreted viruses and protozoa may be long enough to cause a health risk in schemes for wastewater use.
Two factors, pathogen survival and infective dose, determine whether excreted pathogens are capable of causing disease.
Itching feet and foot rot are probably due to excreted parasitic helminth worms capable of penetrating bare feet.
Therefore, coproantigen-positive but egg-negative faeces were supposed to be excreted by the foxes with the pre-patent stage of infection in the baited section.
This calculation is repeated for each day that virus was excreted into the atmosphere.
Thus iron, ingested by hookworms, even if excreted again cannot be re-absorbed and is therefore lost.
