Sentence examples for specimens when used from inspiring English sources

With preliminary evidence that crude, unextracted clinical swab specimens, when used in the proper amounts, are adequate for direct PCR analysis, we sought to determine the repeatability of this finding.

There is generally a concern about how effective and dangerous plant specimens are when used as abortifaciants [ 1].

However, even with these assumptions good correlation was achieved for the circular-hole specimen data when using the specimen data without stress concentration as a baseline.

The required ductility was achieved by all specimens, even when using welds smaller than full-strength fillet welds.

Efficient and effective penetration of larger specimens even when using solution with the same, or even higher iodine concentrations has proven largely elusive for samples larger than 5 cm in diameter [ 5, 13].

These findings suggest that ELISA may be more useful when used with nasopharyngeal aspirate and serum specimens.

When used on specimens confirmed to be HIV positive by other tests, low OD readings tend to be found in people with recent infections.

The aims of this study were to evaluate 1) the reliability of spoligotyping when used with clinical specimens, 2) the potential usefulness of the method in distinguishing M. tuberculosis from other nontuberculous mycobacteria (primarily M. avium), and 3) the feasibility and impact of spoligotyping in managing tuberculosis in clinical settings.

Overall sensitivity and specificity were 97%and95%5% for the detection of M. tuberculosis and 98% and 96% when used with clinical specimens.

The test appears to have relatively lower sensitivity when used directly on clinical specimens.

Furthermore, in a study evaluating 87 resected HCC tumors, Notch1 protein (cytoplasmic) was upregulated in 89% of tumor specimens, when analyzed using immunohistochemical staining and western blot [ 40].