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A plaque assay was used to determine the ability of test compounds to prevent infection.
There may be logistical reasons for choosing short time intervals between challenges, but from a statistical standpoint, the time intervals should be large enough to allow the identification of the challenge that gives rise to infection.
For example, viral IL-6 might be incorporated into the genomes of prostatic carcinomas, as has been described for Kaposi sarcoma [ 5 32 33 39 40 41 ] . The route of introduction of the viral IL-6 is believed to be through previous herpesvirus infection [ 39 41 ] . Another possibility is that the insertion of the oncogene BRCA1 results in the constitutive activation of STAT3 in NRP-154 cells, as has been described in Du-145 prostate cancer cells [ 42 ] . Du-145 cells do not make IL-6; nor are they dependent upon it for continued proliferation in vitro.
Blood isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci, Corynebacterium species, Bacillus species, Propionibacterium species, Peptostreptococcus species, Clostridium species, and unidentified Gram-positive rods were considered contaminated if a single blood culture yielded the organism or the clinician did not initiate treatment, considering it not a true infection.
However, the relationship of habitat characteristics to inoculum abundance, infection and disease is poorly understood.