Currently only isolated data is available on the prevalence of the gene variants in ethnic Arabs.
The median correlation between call data and CDC viral isolate data was 0.65 (range 0.35 0.83), and four states (Set C: CA, D, E, MO) had a correlation coefficient of ≥0.75 (and ≥0.80).
However, for this model, seasonal influenza periods, determined by virus isolate data, were censored before modeling.
The following bacteremia isolate data was extracted; numbers of coagulase negative Staphylococci (CNS); numbers of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates and total numbers of bacteraemia isolates.
Ineligible studies that were not evaluable for the bacteremia end point but evaluable within a sensitivity analysis or for bacteremia isolate data were identified.
Striking in our natural isolate data is the observation that strains carrying very similar haplotypes exhibited the full range of mating frequency.
For each isolate, data were collected on organism type and susceptibility pattern.
A summary of the isolate data is presented in Additional file 1: Table S1, including the number of reads and the de novo assembly statistics for each strain.
To provide accurate information, patients and isolates data were abstracted in the following two steps, (i) manual work through of laboratory records, and (ii) physician-assisted medical reconciliation of data.
For some isolates, data were available regarding resistance-associated characteristics, i.e., fluoroquinolone resistance; ESBL production; and presence of blaCTX-M-15, which encodes the CTX-M-15 ESBL variant.
