This strategy requires that initial antibiotic choices be guided by local antibiotic resistance patterns and laboratory test results (including Gram staining), rapidly yielding identities of likely responsible pathogens.
If the decline in legionellosis in Ontario reported here represents a true epidemiological shift, rather than an artifact of clinical practice patterns and laboratory testing practices, it may be worth noting that almost all major population centers in Ontario Ottawaa being the exception) lie < 30 miles from the Great Lakes.
In an attempt to explore the possible correlation between gene expression pattern and laboratory indices of disease progression, we integrated the gene expression data with the laboratory indices using clustered correlation analysis [ 33].
Since the principle aim of this study was to identify the broad picture of changes in the clinical characteristics of PC within the GEM era, other detailed data (e.g., performance status, family history, medical history, associated diseases, presentation pattern, and laboratory tests including biochemical, tumor markers, and histology) were not collected.
Differences in distributions of different staining patterns regarding clinical and laboratory features were analysed using χ tests of independence (alternatively Fisher's exact test in case of small expected frequencies) with Cramer's V as measure of effect size.
Lipid pattern and other laboratory characteristics were not different at baseline in the two groups (Additional file 1).
TOC Summary: The epidemiologic pattern and limited laboratory testing indicate that this virus lineage might account for most of these illnesses.
All women received dienogest (2 mg once daily, orally) and changes in pelvic pain (on a visual analog scale), bleeding pattern, adverse events and laboratory parameters were evaluated during and after treatment.
In the present study we aimed at comparing IF-ANA staining patterns with defined clinical and laboratory disease manifestations among well-characterised cases of SLE.
Here, we present the first test for age-related differences in lymphocyte subsets and inflammatory markers in a wild mammal and report considerable similarity to the patterns observed in humans and laboratory mammals.
Also, at a global level, marked seasonal patterns of key clinical and laboratory parameters, were observed with higher levels of pre-SBP, IDWG, serum albumin and CRP levels in winter as compared to summer.
