Sentence examples for specimen and baseline from inspiring English sources

From January 25 to 27, 2004, a nasal swab specimen and baseline serum sample were collected from healthcare workers at the hospital; each worker also completed a questionnaire.

Quantitative morphology was performed on the diagnostic biopsy specimens and baseline glomerular filtration dynamics were performed at study entry.

Comparison of the levels reported in these studies is however difficult due to significant differences in sampling time, sampling size, sampling specimen, laboratory methods, and baseline characteristics of the study population.

Poststop analysis compared the difference between randomized groups from baseline and the 'stop' specimen vs. baseline and the 'poststop' specimen, using a t-test with unequal variances.

Difference in gestational age between predelivery and baseline specimens was 148 (SD 25) days and 154 (30) days for cases and controls, respectively (P=0.08).

Differences between predelivery and baseline specimens for the other thyroid function tests and for human chorionic gonadotrophin were not associated with quarters of soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 concentration in predelivery specimens.

The arithmetic mean of the difference in free thyroxine concentration between predelivery and baseline specimens was greater in the fourth quarter than in the first quarter (−2.70 v −1.67 pmol/l, P=0.03); but the test for trend was not significant.

Furthermore, Lafyatis and colleagues reported the presence of B cells in all but one skin specimen at baseline and a complete or nearly complete depletion of dermal B cells six months after administration of rituximab [ 20].

Typical high throughput microarrays experiments compare gene expression across two specimen classes – an experimental class and baseline (or comparison) class.

Of 326 women who developed pre-eclampsia, 141 had at least one serum specimen collected before 21 weeks' gestation (baseline specimen) and one collected after the onset of pre-eclampsia (predelivery specimen).

Chlamydial genotype fingerprinting will be performed to determine any differences in chlamydia strain/serovar between a participant's baseline specimen and any repeat positive specimens detected at day 28, 42 or 56 [ 27].