Moreover, the data in the four above-mentioned cases came from a relatively small number of specimen, where each animal has been measured many times.
These allopatric clone mates were not removed from the data prior to analysis, since it concerns a relatively small number of specimens and because it is unknown which of the sites was the source.
Most evaluations of the GenoType® MTBDR plus assay have involved a relatively small number of specimens (usually less than 50) and were conducted in primarily academic facilities located in low TB burden, high income countries [ 9, 12- 17].
Moreover, only a relatively small number of specimens per locality and only one mitochondrial locus were analysed in this study, so that additional (genetic) data, e.g. from nuclear DNA loci, are required to confirm the distinct species status of the populations.
A popular method of estimating a materials fatigue threshold is the so called staircase test, where a relatively small number of test specimens are used to estimate the materials fatigue strength.
For this purpose, firstly, three-point cold bending experiments are conducted with a relatively small indenter on the specimens cut from a thick steel plate (54 mm), and afterwards, tension tests are carried out on tensile coupons cut from the already bent specimens.
Unlike classical tissue annotation and clinical data, these high-throughput techniques generate a large amount of well formatted data, typically for a relatively small number of tissue specimens.
Some studies, which used 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify bacteria in a relatively small number of clinical specimens, adopted the approach of sequencing about 50 clones from each library generated per sample [ 33, 52].
The major limitation of our study is that it involved a relatively small number of sputum specimens compared with the number routinely processed in the laboratory, which may have been an insufficient sample to detect differences in test performance between isolates and AFB-positive sputum.
Moreover PCR protocols call for a relatively small amount of such diluted specimen be placed within the PCR reaction, further diluting-out any potential inhibitors.
