Specimen Collection
Factors influencing the time between onset of illness and specimen collection in the diagnosis of non pregnancy associated listeriosis in England and Wales
... of specimen collection, presenting symptoms, principal illness, under- lying medical conditions (any other ongoing illness, either acute or chronic, reported by the microbiologist including cancer, ...
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Comparison of PCR and Hybrid Capture Based Human Papillomavirus Detection Systems Using Multiple Cervical Specimen Collection Strategies
... second specimen was collected from each subject and placed into Digene Specimen Transport Medium ...for collection of the second specimen alternated with consecutive subjects between a conical ...
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Performance of non laboratory staff for diagnostic testing and specimen collection in HIV programs: A systematic review and meta analysis
... stable specimen collection technologies, such as dried blood spot filter paper, accordingly allow for task shifting and decentralization of these clinical ...
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The Pre Analytical Phase: Precautions in Specimen Collection and Patient Preparation for Trace and Ultra Trace Elements Analysis
... Trace Elements are defined as elements that occur at a level of 0.01 to 100 µg/g (10 µg/L to 10 4 µg/ L) (1). Arbitrary elements at a level of less than 0.01 µg/g (less than 10 µg/L) are called Ultra Trace Elements. The ...
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Intensified specimen collection to improve tuberculosis diagnosis in children from Rural South Africa, an observational study
... Systematic evaluation of pediatric sampling methods is an important area of study to maximize chances of achieving a pathogen-based diagnosis efficiently. Histor- ically, gastric aspiration after overnight fasting has ...
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Effects of specimen collection, processing, and storage conditions on stability of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA levels in plasma
... blood collection parameters, including the types of anticoagulants used (10, 13, 18, 25), the length of time between specimen collection and specimen preparation (13, 18, 19, 21), and plasma ...
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Original Article Development and application of specimen collection techniques in breast FNA cytopathology
... the specimen collection tech- niques play an important and key role in FNA operation ...and specimen collection techniques, to meet the demand of modern medical laboratory technol- ogy and ...
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Preference of specimen collection methods for human papillomavirus detection for cervical cancer screening: a cross-sectional study of high-risk women in Mombasa, Kenya
... different specimen brushes, the Evalyn cytobrush (Rovers®, Netherlands), and the Viba cytobrush (Rovers®, ...of specimen collection, women had study numbers assigned to them based on their enrollment ...
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Urine specimen collection with external devices for diagnosis of bacteriuria in elderly incontinent men
... We determined the validity of using external devices for urine specimen collection from 24 elderly incontinent residing in a nursing home by collecting three sequential specimens, two wi[r] ...
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Timing of Specimen Collection for Blood Cultures from Febrile Patients with Bacteremia
... prior to the IPBC, 1 h before to 1 h after the IPBC, and 1 to ⬎ 24 h after the IPBC. No statistically significant associations were noted among the different organism groups which com- prised the bloodstream infections ...
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La cuerda dulce – a tolerability and acceptability study of a novel approach to specimen collection for diagnosis of paediatric pulmonary tuberculosis
... The mean scores on the Behavioural Pain Assessment Scale and Objective Pain Scale out of 10 were 1.3 and 0.6 at the time of swallowing the capsule and 2.6 and 1.0 at the time of string r[r] ...
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Comparison of specimen collection and laboratory techniques for isolation of Haemophilus ducreyi
... in the past by Gram stain of genital pus 1, 6, ducreyi to several antibiotics, using a disk susby the chaining morphology of the organism in ceptibility technique, showed that these isol[r] ...
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Screening for Congenital Hypothyroidism With Specimen Collection at Two Time Periods: Results of the Northwest Regional Screening Program
... When compared with infants detected on the first screening test, the 19 infants detected by collection of the routine second specimen had a higher mean dried blood filter paper T4 level [r] ...
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Efficient Isolation of Swine Influenza Viruses by Age Targeted Specimen Collection
... Here, we clarified the age-based SIV seroprevalence in pig pop- ulations by means of efficient and biologically contained micro- neutralization assays; growing pigs at 90 days old are most suscep- tible to SIV infection ...
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Opportunities to improve storage and transportation of blood specimens for CD4 testing in a rural district in Zimbabwe using BD vacutainer CD4 stabilization tubes: a stability and diagnostic accuracy study
... Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been supporting the HIV/TB programme in Buhera District in Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe since 2004. The programme pro- vides ART and management of opportunistic infections (OIs) in ...
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Serum proteins and paraproteins in women with silicone implants and connective tissue disease: a case–control study
... As already described, 88 women (Groups 1 and 3) enrolled into FDA and NIH protocols investigating the pathogenesis of CTD following silicone implants were chosen for study on the basis of the presence of documented ...
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... in collection workers supervised by the pathology laboratory when compared with non-laboratory managed personnel (such as nurses and doctors collecting specimens in inpatient and primary care ...pathology ...
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Issues in Newborn Screening
... Screening for congenital hypothyroidism with specimen collection at two times periods: results of the Northwest Regional Screening Program. Sokol RJ, McCabe ER, Kotzer AM, Langendoerfer [r] ...
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What Is The Economic Feasibility Of Implementing Grey Water Infrastructure At The Citywide Level?
... Weaknesses. A weakness, or challenge of the project is that we will be attempting to standardize a process in four surgical settings, two outpatient centers and two inpatient surgical units with different management, ...
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A phase I safety and efficacy study of the mammary aspirate specimen cytology test device for collection of spe cimens for exfoliative cytopathology of the breast ducts
... mg specimen weights for the right and left breast, respect- ...the specimen collection membrane filter that this subject yielded ...no specimen test result suggested any clinically signifi- ...
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