Routine diagnosis and treatment procedures were followed by clinical staff, except that culture was added to the smear-based diagnosis recommended by the South African TB Guidelines, which restrict cultures to retreatment cases [ 14].
Furthermore, under the limited and highly restricted clothing culture of North Korea, interviewees didn't have enough personal fashion styling or shopping experience in North Korea.
Understanding nosocomial pathogen transmission is restricted by culture limitations.
Until recently these reference laboratories were restricted to culture using homemade Lowenstein Jensen slopes, a slow and cumbersome procedure.
I agree that this poses a hurdle but it still does not address the caveat that at present the data are restricted to culture studies with a cell line.
However, we also found that the cellular heterogeneity within cell lines was remarkably restricted in culture and was enriched for cellular phenotypes that were normally present as a minor component in vivo.
A decline in the most recent decade was observed even when analysis was restricted to culture-confirmed cases (IRR 0.95, 95% CI 0.90 0.99), and to cases lacking culture positivity (IRR 0.92, 95% CI 0.90 0.95) and was also seen when the time series was extended to 2008 using case count data from 2007 and 2008 (IRR 0.96, 95% CI 0.94 to 0.99).
The reactivity of the assay was validated by exposing no copper, oxygen restricted control cultures to ROS inducer compounds; cell specific fluorescence increased demonstrably compared to the uninduced control cultures (data not shown).
However, because many SSTIs do not receive microbiological testing, analyses restricted to culture-confirmed infections do not fully address issues of disease burden.
When the analysis was restricted to culture-confirmed extrapulmonary cases, black women were still more likely to present with extrapulmonary disease (32.6%) compared to black men (23.3%), non-black women (20.2%) and non-black men (16.6%).
