index patient

The Index Patient had come directly to hospital because of his family status.

There was a preponderance of women in index patients in both disorders.

We included all evaluable index patients diagnosed between November 1991 and June 2002.

The Index Patient brought the disease with him.

A routine heart-enzyme test showed that her heart, unlike that of the Index Patient, was still normal and healthy.

"She was treating the Index Patient."

"It's off the Index Patient.

Krumwiede is an ardent conspiracy theorist who, according to Law, is the so-called index patient for "what becomes a parallel epidemic of fear and panic".

PCD patients harbor an anti-neuronal antibody known as anti-Yo (named after the first two letters of the index patient).

In the other remaining kinship, one index patient and her sister had IgGSD but they were HLA-nonidentical.

Benedict Mkusa, the "Index Patient" or "Patient Zero," depending on one's favored terminology, was dead, and his body was destroyed.

Follow-up counseling may include telephone conversations with the index patient verifying which family members have been contacted and an offer to assist with conveying information to family members.

A baby in the Lewis House at 40 Broad Street is considered the index patient in the 1854 cholera outbreak in the Soho neighborhood of London.

"I'm not sure of anything at the moment, but I also interviewed staff at the hospital, and all injections were given to the Index Patient by others, not Sister here.

There is evidence that implementation of a follow-up counseling program with the index patient, after test results are revealed, will significantly increase the proportion of relatives informed of their genetic risk.

The index patient was a newborn 46,XX Japanese girl with craniosynostosis, hypertelorism, mid-face hypoplasia, radiohumeral synostosis, arachnodactyly and disordered steroidogenesis.

Ms. Huden was the anthrax index patient - the pivot point upon which every outbreak investigation is based, the crucial clue that every medical investigator hopes can be found, and fast.

Family Members We diagnosed CVID or IgGSD deficiency in some family members using the same criteria defined herein for index patients.

The poliovirus type 1 infection occurred in an unvaccinated, immunocompromised infant girl aged 7 months (the index patient) in an Amish community whose members predominantly were not vaccinated for polio.

In one study of 64 at-risk siblings of 25 index patients with identifiable biallelic MYH mutations, ten siblings were affected with colon polyposis alone, and seven had polyposis and colorectal cancer.

The present observations demonstrate that the frequencies of HLA-A and -B phenotypes and haplotypes were not significantly different in CVID and IgGSD index patients, with few exceptions.

Regardless, the variability we observed in IgG, IgA, and IgM phenotypes in index patients and family members is best explained by the co-inheritance of multiple allele(s) that influence the immunoglobulin phenotype.

Alternatives for persons who cannot take INH or who have been exposed to a known INH-resistant index patient include either RIF or rifabutin alone for 4 months (BIII).

Possible Dose Effect of Haplotype on Total Serum Immunoglobulin Concentrations Eleven haplotypes occurred with significantly greater frequency in index patients with CVID and IgGSD than in control subjects (described above).