Sentence examples for rather than colonization from inspiring English sources

One explanation could pertain to the fact that BAL was considered infected if a culture was found to be ≥104 CFU/ml [11], and then 20%% of samples had an infra-threshold bacteria culture that led to the elimination of infection rather than colonization, which might have increased ROS production.

In addition most children were under 6 months of age, the highest risk period for primary PCP rather than colonization.

The second used a hidden Markov model to analyze time series of infection counts rather than colonization data (3).

This rate is compatible with an acute infection occurring during hospitalization rather than colonization of the respiratory tracts of patients.

†Cases were included only when an Infectious Diseases consultant determined that the isolate represented an infection rather than colonization.

Use of quantitative identification methods, rather than colonization (7, 8 ), is advantageous for identifying true disease associations.

Garrison's publication further altered the course of the American antislavery movement by insisting that abolition, rather than African colonization, was the answer to the problem of slavery.

In France in 1846, Lamoricière was elected deputy for Sarthe and submitted a plan for free, rather than military, colonization of Algeria.

This study also determined that the fungus propagates mainly by vegetative growth (extension of underground mycelia), rather than by colonization of spores.

Great caution should be exercised in labeling these as cases of NTM lung disease, even though children with NTM isolates exhibited symptoms consistent with host recognition, rather than environmental colonization.

For example, a transcriptional profile associated with inflammation might provide evidence of infection rather than just colonization at a given body site.