To assess whether the larger proportion of isolates from Thailand during the second period (8% vs. 22%) explained the significant increase in fluoroquinolone resistance in the whole study group, we analyzed the data excluding all isolates from Thailand.
To examine risks beyond the established effects of these mutations, we analyzed the data excluding both deaths and follow-up times after reported diagnosis of melanoma and cancer of the breast, ovary, prostate, and pancreas.
To evaluate whether the results are skewed by path names ending in a slash, which we refer to as "index pages", which may require the server to compose a directory listing which in turn may take more time, we re-analyzed the data excluding samples with such path names.
To test whether the use of medication or the presence of diabetes might affect the results, we analyzed the data excluding subjects on medication or with diabetes (n = 7).
We have re-analyzed the data excluding all trials containing spikes or spike-waves, and the findings reported as significant in the main analyses remain significant.
In a sensitivity test of high exposure values, especially for PM10, we analyzed the data excluding the 5th percentile highest values of the pollutants.
By analyzing the data (excluding the dropouts) we observed that 46% of the patients had sufficiently improved to allow discharge by the 3rd visit and 87% by the 4th.
We also analyzed the data excluding all controls with a previous history of LD, and the results were virtually unchanged except that having an occupational exposure was a risk factor.
When analyzing data, we excluded cases pairwise, i.e., we excluded the resident only if they were missing the data required for the specific analysis (Pallant 2007).
The Institutional Review Board approved the study protocol and waived the need for individual patient consent or ethical approval to collect and analyze data from registries that exclude patient-identifying information.
TE families, including CR1, ERV1 and "other DNA" that didn't contribute an exonized TE to ZNF genes according to the analyzed data, were excluded from this test.
