1.   Our patients were interviewed individually before endoscopy or function tests.

2.   Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter.

3.   As epidemiologists interviewed patients, other health workers were investigating possible sources of the parasite.

4.   As is standard, the researchers will obtain permission from an ethics committee at each hospital before examining records and interviewing patients.

5.   After each patient interview, Schnipper consults with his supervisor, Dr. John D. Goodson, and the two of them then interview the patient together.

6.   But she said she only found out after interviewing patients.

7.   Doctors and administrators there, in exchange for anonymity, agreed to discuss the case and share the records with outside experts, who also interviewed the patient.

8.   Health officials spent hours analyzing data and interviewing patients in search of a common link.

9.   No U.S. military personnel has attempted to interview the patients, hospital staff said, only journalists.

10.   Otherwise, she interviewed the patients.