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The relationship between the level of sIgA to the ages of these children were analyzed, and a negative trend was noted in Figure 3B .

The results indicated that the utilization of six types of carbon sources by microbes presented an increasing trend with the prolongation of incubation time.

A clear trend, albeit not a strict rule, emerges from this correlation which admittedly may be biased by limitations in the currently available set of 3D structures.

rhamnosus GR-1 or milk was well tolerated and showed a trend to lowering uptake of heavy metals, but it was not statistically significant ( Bisanz et al., 2014 ).

An increasing trend of binding capacity was observed from the AFB1 concentration of 2–6 μg/mL for all Lcs cell components.

P -values ≤ 0.05 were considered as significant ( ∗ ) and P -values ≤ 0.005 ( ∗∗ ) were considered as highly significant.

Aqueous geochemistry across site locations follows a clear trend of higher ion concentrations found in spring fluids, followed by melt pools, aufeis, and finally glacier samples.

There is a clear trend that average temperature will surpass this threshold during extended summer periods by 2,100 ( Neumann et al., 2012 ).

Jonckheere’s trend test was used to investigate whether each marker had an increasing trend from the control group to the rapid progressor group.

Figure 1 shows that the coefficient of variation of the growth rate appears to be constant, independently of the condition and the average growth rate (consistently with the collapse hypothesis) for some datasets (Taheri-Araghi et al., 2015 ), while it shows a decreasing trend for others (Kiviet et al., 2014 ; Kennard et al., 2016 ; Wallden et al., 2016 ).

Instead, the amount of 16S copies showed an increasing trend for all treatments in the first half of the experiment, after which it leveled off.

Although many efforts are being done in order to control Listeria ’s presence in food facilities, the truth is that in the last 5 years (from 2012 to 2016), there has been an increasing trend of confirmed listeriosis cases in the EU/EEA ( EFSA, 2017 ).

Besides, the presence of some virulence determinants such as agg and gelE genes in MZF1 and MZF4 cannot be considered as a negative trend since some commercial enterococci starter cultures with a long history of safe use are also known to possess several virulence genes such as ace, asa1, gelE , and esp .

There is a highly significant epidemiologic association between netF -positive strains and fatal enteric disease in foals and dogs (Mehdizadeh Gohari et al., 2015 ; Busch et al., 2017 ).

However, no significant differences were observed in the lipid peroxidation between unstressed cells with or without MEL, although in some strains, there was an increasing trend in lipid peroxidation in presence of MEL ( Figure 2A and Supplementary Table S1 , Control and MEL).

HU–DNA interactions seem to be non-specific; therefore, we hypothesized that the differences in the genomic architecture between the serovars Typhimurium and Enteritidis may be significant for the different phenotypes.

All treatments showed a trend toward increased plant biomass as compared to the controls ( Figure 3 ).

A difference with P < 0.05 was considered significant, and a difference with P < 0.01 was considered extremely significant.

Immunological changes in FE and MIX showed a trend similar to group 8AB (Figure 5 , Figures S4A,B , Table 4 ).

This strongly suggests an increasing trend in discovery of anti-MRSA compounds over time from the marine ecosystem, particularly the marine sediments.

They indicate a positive trend in the link between the PIC and tropospheric connectivity, the test of “slope = 0” leading to low p -values for June, September, and October.

There is also a clear trend of greater separation of the community make-up of the treatments as treatment concentration increases throughout the treatment phases and when the columns are allowed to re-sour in phase 7 the treatments remain separate from each other and do not return to the pretreatment community ( Supplementary Figure S5 ).

The specific Mediterranean experiment site is influenced by riverine freshwater fluxes leading to a decreasing trend in salinity the last decade ( Krestenitis et al., 2012 ).

The antimicrobial susceptibility profile was similar to that of previously characterized isolates from invasive infections (iGAS), presenting a decreasing trend in macrolide resistance.

( 2012 ) we did observe a highly significant correlation of soil bacterial community structure and diversity (indicated by phylogenetic richness and diversity) with soil pH (Table 2 ; Figure 2 ), in addition to the marked variations in bacterial communities across the studied pH range of surveyed loess soils (Figure 3 ).