Sentence examples for minority strains from inspiring English sources
In areas where the incidence of TB is high, mixed infections have been found in nearly 20% of patients; these studies may underestimate the actual prevalence of mixed infection given that tests may not be sufficiently sensitive for detecting minority strains.
Our report highlights the importance of transmission of resistant minority strains, as it carries the threat of emergence of multi-drug resistance primary mutations without specific selective pressures.
There is potential for these minority strains to go undetected in the population, leading to under-estimates of transmitted resistance levels.
Subcloning, followed by sequencing, must be used in these circumstances to determine sequences of minority strains.
Three patients (P57, P76, and P141) had evidence of emerging dominance of preexisting minority strains (rising from 3-93-9% in pretreatment samples to 100% in posttreatment samples).
Furthermore, there is a bottleneck on transmission: most infections probably arise from one or very few organisms (Lurie, 1964), which may be minority strains in the first case.
1- 3 Further work is required to assess the impact of minority variant strains on patients treated with DAA therapy.
We hypothesized that reinfection rates following treatment may be overestimated by standard sequencing techniques due to a lack of detection of varying dominance of minority variant strains present at the onset of infection.
It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
Specific reasons for failing to detect mixed infections would include low initial numbers of minority strain cells in sputum, stochastic growth in culture and the physical division of initial samples into parts (typically only one of which is genotyped).
Even during the days when fundamentalist thought dominated evangelicalism, there was a resistant, if minority, strain that insisted there was a different way.
