We collected information about the characteristics of the private practitioners (gender, age, occupation, and qualification), work experience, opening hours per day, availability of TB suspect referral forms in the private practice, and distance of the participant's private clinic to a sputum smear laboratory.
The project explored the availability of triage staff specifically trained for the early recognition of suspected HID patients, or alternatively the existence of other procedures for the early identification of these patients, such as a syndromic approach.
The five remaining patients did not receive rifampicin because of suspected resistance according to previous treatment history or availability of first line susceptibility tests from other countries or contact.
Given its wide availability, rapid turnaround, low cost, and high accuracy, the value of Gram staining in the clinical workup of suspected meningitis cannot be understated.
Our study also indicated important enablers of referral: the availability of official TB suspect referral forms and of a smear examination laboratory within the vicinity of the private clinic.
Between that and the general lack of information around availability, I suspect we won't be seeing any of these products in stores any time soon.
It follows a similar tie-up with the UK's ASOS earlier this year and also paves the way for Virtusize to make the claim to being the largest virtual fitting solution in terms of availability — though I suspect a number of competitors may dispute that definition.
During the 1960s Black held a prominent position among the liberal majority on the court who struck down mandatory school prayer and who guaranteed the availability of legal counsel to suspected criminals.
Notable strengths of our study include its large sample size, prospective design, high follow-up rate, and availability of relevant known or suspected breast cancer risk factors.
Bailey et al. (1999) noted that variability in herd structures in the Horn of Africa has not been documented in the past and the factors responsible have not been explained though they are suspected to influence availability of market meat animals.
