Sentence examples for in the primary case from inspiring English sources
We first consider infections to be related if symptoms are reported within 14 days following onset in the primary case.
Finally the presence of SNPs in the primary case isolate of 26 pairs (averaging 0.64 SNPs per pair) that were not found in the secondary suggests that the sampled isolate is unlikely to represent the transmitted population.
In five of the pairs, a resistant phenotype was found in the primary case isolate, and in three of the pairs it was found in the secondary (see Additional file 3).
SNPs found only in the primary case isolate were excluded as these are likely to represent either variation in the source host population that is not present in the transmitted population, or SNPs generated via laboratory passage.
The estimates of completeness in cancer registries in England are generally consistent with estimates from other national cancer registries that process information from death certificates in the primary case ascertainment, for example, Finland (Robinson et al, 2007) and Norway (Larsen et al, 2009).
We make an empirical calculation of the mean time between the onset of symptoms in the primary case and the onset of symptoms in the household contacts (the serial interval), for all household ILI events, events in which the participant was the primary case, and events in which influenza was isolated from the participant's virological sample.
Nevertheless, rabies was in fact suspected in the primary case-patient, identified in August 2005.
Mean number of days from onset in the primary case-patient to starting prophylaxis in contacts was 4.4 days (SD 4.9, median 4 days, IQR 2 6 days).
Contacts who received prophylaxis <2 days after onset in the primary case-patient had a nonsignificantly higher SAR than those who received therapy later (Table 3), although the study did not have sufficient statistical power to detect such differences.
The cumulative household SAR was defined as the total number of secondary cases in a household divided by number of household members at risk (excluding primary and co-primary cases) 14 days after onset in the primary case-patient.
