Sentence examples for pandemic sample from inspiring English sources

Before the pandemic, sample data were entered into the Laboratory Information System LISS) and bar-coded in the Central Processing & Receiving section; the accessioned respiratory samples were then transported to the Virology Laboratory, located 3 floors away.

Sets of input parameters related to the pandemic sampled using LHS were used in 1000 simulations of the model representing different possible profiles in the absence of any control measure.

The post-pandemic sample size was designed with a disproportionately greater representation of very young and very old persons and with broad coverage of all geographic areas of NSW by using postcode as a stratification variable.

We aimed to estimate the proportion of persons with serologic immunity in each of 12 groups in the post-pandemic sample, consisting of 4 age groups (<14, 15 34, 35 54, and >55 y) within each of the 3 study regions described.

It also obviates the need for pre-pandemic samples to establish the antibody prevalence at baseline.

Confidence intervals for differences in proportions between the pre-pandemic and post-pandemic samples were estimated using bootstrapping with 10,000 replications [12].

This is in contrast to pre-pandemic samples from subjects in the 18 24 year-old age range, where only 6% of sera collected in 2008 were HAI positive for pandemic H1N1 (Table 1), likely due to cross-reactivity.

Our observation that there was a small but significant negative association between the presence of pH1N1 antibodies and seasonal Brisbane/59/2007A/H3N2 antibodies, in post-pandemic samples, may be a chance finding but, alternatively, could support this proposition.

In order to compensate for under- and over-sampling from sections of the NSW population, post-stratification weights for both the pre- and post-pandemic samples were also created to balance the sample by five-year age group and by geographic region [6].

We present our results using 300 (30 samples times 10 simulated pandemics) sampled time series of pandemic cases.

Pre- and postpandemic samples were the same except for a single base polymorphism (in the mitochondrial large subunit rRNA gene) found in the pre-pandemic samples only.