Sentence examples for before specimens were collected from inspiring English sources

None reported other underlying illnesses, and none reported taking any antibiotics before specimens were collected.

Specific informed consent was obtained from all participants before specimens were collected.

Informed consent was obtained from patients as appropriate before specimens were collected.

Both patients were immunocompromised and had influenza-like illness symptoms 2 4 weeks before specimens were collected.

Most of the project patients had received broad-range antibiotics before specimens were collected for this study.

An outbreak of sudden child deaths during 2008 went undiagnosed, in part, because children were either dead when they arrived at the hospital or died before specimens were collected.

Participants completed structured interviews and were given pre-test counseling before biological specimens were collected for the testing of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.

With regard to the timing of sample collection, 44 of the 65 patients with M. pneumoniae had already been treated with antimicrobial agents before nasopharyngeal specimens were collected.

Normal control subjects were never diagnosed with any form of diabetes while patients with type 2 diabetes had been diagnosed 2, 7, 15, 20 or 23 years before the specimens were collected.

One key factor is the indiscriminate use of antimicrobial drugs in clinical practice and by patients in China (11 ): 62% of all AMES case-patients and 66% of PBM case-patients in our study had used antimicrobial drugs before clinical specimens were collected.

At enrolment, participants were interviewed to obtain socio-demographic and medical information before study specific specimens were collected.