Sentence examples for below the sensitivity breakpoint from inspiring English sources
In patients with VAP or ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT) who were administered 1 million international units (MIU, i.e., 80 mg) of CMS via a vibrating mesh nebulizer under optimal conditions every 8 h, peak ELF concentrations were high but then dropped below the sensitivity breakpoint at 4 h, thus indicating that this dose may not be optimal for treating pneumonia [44] (Table 2).
Recently, the sensitivity breakpoints for Candida spp. were modified according to the species [ 30].
The MIC values of tetracycline, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, interpreted according to the NCCLS criteria for slow growing bacteria, have shown ranges below the breakpoints for sensitivity determination.
In the first trial [ 21], in which ceftazidime was administered by aerosol, ceftazidime concentrations were detectable by bronchoalveolar lavage procedures in 16 of 19 ceftazidime-recipients; 3 of these 16 patients had concentrations below the breakpoint for ceftazidime sensitivity.
All others were regarded as ambiguous or, if below the 25% breakpoint, as negative.
Table 2 shows the breakpoints for values from 3 to 10. Once the breakpoints are obtained, a time series is discretized such that all PAA coefficients below the smallest breakpoint are mapped to the symbol "a", all coefficients greater than or equal to the smallest breakpoint and less than the second smallest breakpoint are mapped to the symbol "b", and so on.
The MIC of imipenem was 0.5 μg/ml, which is still below the susceptibility breakpoint defined by CLSI.
However, carbapenem-susceptible P. putida had low levels of susceptibility because the MIC50 was only 1 dilution below the current breakpoint (7, 8 ).
