Sentence examples for initial specificity from inspiring English sources
The FRET peptide libraries provide an efficient and simple approach for detecting nanomolar concentrations of endopeptidases and are useful for initial specificity characterization as performed for two proteases secreted by a Bacillus subtilis.
Five of the 6 patients with one initial specificity proceeded to develop multiple autoantibodies before meeting SLE classification criteria; therefore, a total of 24 of these 25 patients had multiple autoantibodies present before diagnosis.
Of the 34 patients with a single initial specificity, 10 (29%) had detectable antibodies against 60 kD Ro, 8 (24%) to nRNP A, 6 (17%) to phospholipids and 5 (15%) had rheumatoid factor (IgG and/or IgM) as the initial sole lupus autoantibody detected.
This corroborated to an initial specificity for lupulin glands.
This allows us to augment the initial specificity groups with additional sequences.
The criteria for inclusion of an individual rapid HIV assay into the National algorithm were initial sensitivity of 100% and initial specificity of ≥ 99%.
Many of our critical observations are made from the 34 patients who are documented to begin with a single initial autoantibody specificity prior to clinical classification with lupus.
However, the criteria may have use in identifying a small subset (11%) of patients likely to respond to the initial block (specificity 93%).
After these initial examinations, specificity of all of the products was confirmed each time by melting curve analysis via LightCycler Software 3.39 (Roche).
The immune response can be broadly divided into the innate and adaptive responses, with cells of the innate system providing an initial broad-specificity response to pathogens and cells of the adaptive system providing a later, more specific response.
A study evaluating 56 emergency clinicians (attending physicians, residents and midlevel providers) after didactic training showed an initial sensitivity and specificity of 70%and89%9%, respectively.
