Sentence examples for specimens for infectious from inspiring English sources

Only a limited number of published investigations have directly assayed pretreatment specimens for infectious agents at the time of cALL diagnosis and few have retrospectively analyzed archived prediagnostic specimens.

Cultures and stains of the BALF specimen were negative for infectious organisms.

To date, over 20 000 black cancer patients have been interviewed, of whom the majority (over 90%) have donated blood specimens for evaluation of infectious and genetic risk factors for cancer and their interactions with socio-demographic and environmental factors collected via questionnaire.

DBS specimens were tested at the Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Belgrade, under the supervision of staff of the Health Protection Agency Virus Reference Department.

A more extensive investigation of the specimen for evidence of infectious causes, such as mycobacterium tuberculosis and cytomegalovirus, and for non-infectious causes, such as malignancy, inflammatory bowel disease and systemic vasculitis were non-revealing.

For a small number of specimens we also performed viral cultures and often found evidence for infectious virions (unpublished data).

For a small number of specimens we also performed viral cultures and often found evidence for infectious virions but did not quantify them (unpublished data).

This method offers the possibility of improving PCR assays directly using clinical specimens for diagnosis of this globally important infectious disease.

Active procurement of specimens from pediatric inpatients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009–associated pneumonia was organized by the Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology for Infectious Agents at Kitasato University.

Specimens were stored in plastic pouches with desiccant in on-site freezers, and were later transferred to the Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Belgrade where they were stored at -25°C until testing.

Influenza A virus has been detected in the blood of some infected individuals, and may pose a safety concern for collection, handling and transport of specimens for epidemiological and public health investigations if infectious virus is present in samples.