Additionally, forecasts up to 1 month are tested and compared with a persistence model.
One nondiarrheal specimen per child per month was tested in the first year of life.
In contrast, expression in synovium-derived fibroblastic cells cultured for one month was tested in three patients of whom digest data were also available.
The number of diagnoses per calendar month was tested for evidence of a seasonal variation using the method of Walter and Elwood (1975) which is a refinement of the method developed by Edwards (1961).
Nasopharyngeal swabs taken from acute respiratory infection (ARI) patients between October and April were tested for influenza.
Forty-five of the viruses, which included viruses isolated in July, were tested at NICD by using a modified amplification refractory mutation system PCR (ARMS-PCR) (7 ).
With regard to visualization of tissue morphology in cancer suspect areas, high-resolution imaging technologies, such as confocal microscopy (CM) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) were tested.
The specific food items served and sampled in the canteen on 6 and 7 January were tested for norovirus if the results from the analytical study suggested an independent association with disease.
