Sentence examples for positive to exclude from inspiring English sources

Since the HBV-NAT was not introduced yet, only HBsAg samples with a signal-to-cutoff ratio (S/CO) equal to or greater than 6.00 were considered as confirmed positive to exclude the false positivity of neutralization test [ 10].

However, isolates are forwarded if the specimen is smear positive (to exclude TB), was obtained from a bronchial wash or a site other than sputum, and if >1 specimen is positive for that patient or the treating clinician requests it.

However, the private laboratories do send isolates when (i) the specimen is smear positive (to exclude TB), (ii) the specimen is a bronchial washing or was obtained from a site other than sputum, (iii) there is more than one specimen positive for that patient, or (iv) at the request of the treating clinician.

In many applications, it is worth excluding a few marginal true positives to exclude the large number of false positives shown in Figure 1.

In principle, the advantages of old and new might be combined using TST for all and then applying IGRA blood testing to TST-positive cases to exclude false-positive TST after previous exposure to NTM including BCG immunisation.

The inter event execution time is shown to be lower bounded by a finite positive quantity to exclude Zeno behavior.

In the absence of a PCR product, the internal standard serves as PCR positive control to exclude PCR inhibition.

A random sample of ≈15% negative samples (n = 11) was analyzed along with positive samples to exclude the possibility of false-negative samples.

Only those probes that hybridized to 1 10 BACs were used to select BACs for sequencing to reduce false positives and to exclude multigene families.

Gates were set to include CD11b and CD86 double positive cells and to exclude nonviable cells as determined by propidium iodide staining.

The second reviewer demanded that we 'repeat PCR and sequencing of all positive samples independently to exclude the possibility of contamination'.