Sentence examples for in secondary cases from inspiring English sources
Finally, all treated primary cough headache cases responded to indomethacin, while this drug was of no value in secondary cases in our experience [12, 13].
The mean levels of all four cytokines were higher in secondary cases compared to primary cases.
Higher levels of IL-6 (p = 0.018) and IL-8 (p = 0.06) were observed in secondary cases compared to primary dengue cases.
The level of infectivity in peripheral tissues in secondary cases of vCJD is unknown, although spleen and a lymph node were PrP positive in the sub-clinical case linked to blood transfusion.
In spite of the safety of primaquine reported in this study, the low frequency of gametocytes did not allow us to demonstrate its importance conclusively but our results suggest that AS+SP without primaquine is an adequate regimen to clear the pre-transmission season gametocyte reservoir, which plays a central role in secondary cases arising at the start of the transmission season.
However, only P. jirovecii type 1 was involved in encounters that apparently resulted in secondary cases.
In 7 clusters, the average interval between symptom onset in index case-patients and in secondary case-patients was 23.4 ± 6.8 days (median 21 days; range 19 40 days).
In all instances, the differences in secondary case rates were no longer statistically significant when the outbreaks for which the mode of primary transmission was unknown (p > 0.13) were excluded.
When the unknown outbreaks were omitted, there was still a statistically significant difference in secondary case rates (p = 0.030), with water outbreaks having a higher rate than food (p = 0.003).
In reality, earlier and better treatment of TB patients will to some extent lower the transmission rate and thereby result in fewer secondary cases in the population.
For example, an absence of IgM in some secondary cases, even in later samples, was seen in several of our dengue cohort patients, and this phenomenon has also been observed by others [23].
