The phrase "an initial attack of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the onset of a medical condition or a sudden occurrence of symptoms.
Example: "After experiencing an initial attack of severe headaches, she decided to consult a doctor."
Alternatives: "a first episode of" or "an early onset of".
A patient may completely recover from an initial attack of simple ileitis, but the usual course of Crohn disease is one of gradual progression, with periods of remission and relapse continuing for many years.
The only palliative so far licensed by the Food and Drug Administration is an ointment called acyclovir, made by Burroughs Wellcome, which relieves the symptoms during an initial attack of herpes.
Following the Sentinel Acute Pancreatitis Event model, the pathogenic CTRC variants become important after an initial attack of AP, providing a window of opportunity for CP-preventing interventions.
Experiments with ODC-OVA double-transgenic mice have shown that without an initial attack of CD8+ CTLs on ODCs that exclusively express the OVA antigen, the ODC-OVA cells remain invisible to CD4+ T cells.
It involves an initial attack on the ideas of the opponent, suggesting that they make no sense.
Treatment with interferons or glatiramer acetate after an initial attack decreases the risk of developing clinical definite MS. Medications are modestly effective at decreasing the number of attacks in RRMS and in reducing the accumulation of brain lesions, which is measured using gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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Less than two weeks ago officials of the company, which makes AZT, said that until the drug was licensed for commercial marketing they would provide it only to patients who have had a single, initial attack of the form of pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii, within 120 days.
Although gout is suspected to be an inborn disorder, the initial attack of acute joint inflammation, or gouty arthritis, usually does not appear until middle age.
The CBM1 can assist enzyme function by promoting association to the substrate (Boraston et al., 2004; Herve et al., 2010), thus it is possible that cellulolytic genes with a CBM1 could function in the initial attack of the cellulose, making the substrate more accessible or releasing inducers for other cellulolytic enzymes.
Both the initial attack of EtOH at this species (via TS(I II)a 3(i) at +12.8 kcal mol−1) and the subsequent loss of water (via TS II III)a 3(i) at +14.0 kcal mol−1) occur anti to the Au and hence yield the (S,E)- 5 ko product.
