"Some members concluded that commencement of lethal sampling in the 2015/16 season was not justified," the report says, adding that other members concluded "that there is no reason to postpone immediate initiation" of NEWREP-A.
Before the commencement of experiment, samples were mechanically cut into 2 cm × 2 cm × 0.1 cm, abraded with different grades of silicon carbide emery paper, washed with double distilled water, degreased, dried and stored in desiccator until use.
Samples for microbiological analysis were stored at 4 °C before commencement of analysis and samples for physiochemical tests were analyzed immediately.
Blood was collected from patients after the commencement of fever (febrile sample) and a minimum of 7 days after the termination of fever (afebrile sample).
Farmers were informed on the study before commencement of data and sample collection and willingly agreed to participate.
The large-scale, but ad hoc, sampling from the opportunistic survey provided indication of the commencement of the epidemic and samples to determine its epidemiology.
In addition, it is possible that not all patients were at actual steady-state, given that 11% of patients in group 1 had an interval between commencement of vancomycin infusion and sampling for TDM less than 16 h.
Whenever possible, one 'run' was performed before the commencement of dialysis (pre-dialysis sample) and after the end of dialysis (post-dialysis sample).
A power analysis [ 23] calculation was conducted prior to commencement of study to determine sample size.
At the commencement of data collection, a sample of four homes was purposively selected to include a mixture of small/large, family/non-family owned homes located throughout the study site.
