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SECONDARY, construction. That which comes after the first, which is primary: as, the primary law of, nations the secondary law of nations.

SECONDARY, English law. An officer who is second or next to the chief officer; as secondaries to the prothonotaries of the courts of king's bench, or common pleas; secondary of the remembrancer in the exchequer, &c. Jacob, L. D. h.t.
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The number of cases that must be detected by microbiologic screening to prevent 1 secondary case was most affected by varying the number of contacts per patient and the secondary attack rate (Figure).
Screening and toxigenic corynebacteria spread by George, Robert / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Among 3,916 contacts of the 1,099 primary case-patients, the crude secondary attack rate was 8.
Household transmission of gastroenteritis by Parsonnet, Julie / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Secondary attack rate among household, day-care nursery and pre-elementary school contacts.
Space-time cluster analysis of invasive meningococcal disease by Nagelkerke, Nico / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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