Thus, the practitioner may be thwarted in attempts to exclude the diagnosis of SLE in the face of low-titer positive tests.
While the sewer lines and storm water drains for the city are theoretically separate, there are in fact many illegal connections, and thus ash entered both the stormwater and sewer networks despite barriers and sandbags being put in place in an attempt to exclude it.
Many referrals for OI diagnostics occur in the context of suspected NAI in an attempt to exclude a genetic cause of fractures.
In an attempt to exclude possible contamination with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the IL-22 preparations, IL-22 was administered into the joints of TLR4−/− mice, and articular hypernociception and neutrophil migration were determined.
Of course, some American states did impose "literacy" qualifications, often in an attempt to exclude African-Americans from voting, but aside from African-Americans in southern states, essentially all American men could vote by the Civil War.
Studies conducted in developing countries (i.e. outside North America, Europe, Australia, Israel and Japan [ 16]) were excluded in an attempt to exclude mothers with suboptimal nutritional status.
This was in an attempt to exclude possible effects caused by the microbial production process or the transgenes other than the target transgenes.
In an attempt to exclude patients misclassified with rheumatoid arthritis, we also examined patients with at least two hospitalisations for rheumatoid arthritis at least six weeks apart.
