Sentence examples for without etiologic from inspiring English sources

Diagnostic specimens are generally only obtained and tested in hospital settings, and even then treatment is usually initiated without etiologic determination.

Since not all patients without etiologic diagnostic were evaluated by all diagnostic methods, the following minimal set of diagnostic tools was required for inclusion in the analysis: 1) urinary antigen and 2) paired serology or only 2° serology.

The patient's clinical course improved, and after six weeks of vancomycin and meropenem (including five days of TMP-SMX) antibiotics were serially discontinued and the patient was discharged home without an etiologic diagnosis.

The existing differences could not be explained without considering an etiologic role for exposure to PBB.

25, 27, 31 Additional observations and trends regarding the incidence of all subtypes of JIA have been made without a clear etiologic role.

No statistically significant difference was found regarding the period of decreasing fever, of the hospitalization's duration in patients with one, two or more organ dysfunctions with or without of identified etiologic agent.

Those with poor oral hygiene, bad dietary habits, salivary MS, little or no exposure to fluoride, and parents with a low educational level or an immigrant background were at 32 times greater risk than were children without the corresponding etiologic and external risk factors.

The current Thai national surveillance definition for probable avian influenza (H5N1) included the following: 1) presence of fever (>38°C), and 2) influenza-like illness, and 3) exposure to sick poultry or residence in the disease-endemic areas with excess poultry death rates, and 4) radiographic evidence of severe CAP without an identified etiologic agent (10 ).

The composite reference standard was defined as a CSF culture-positive (n = 459) or a culture-negative sample with ≥2 positive test results (e.g., India ink microscopy, CRAG latex, or CRAG LFA) and without an alternative etiologic explanation (n = 60).

Although we could not find any published cases of P. stuartii conjunctivitis, we did find two mentions of P. stuartii keratitis; in both cases, they were listed as one line in a chart of etiologic agents without further comment [4, 5].

Such interactions should be evident as 'main effects' of the participating genotypes, but the magnitude of the apparent effect would be blunted without accounting for the etiologic cofactor, making these effects difficult to detect.