It was identified from a specimen taken from the wild decades ago and stored unnoticed in a US herbarium.
Twenty-nine years later, a boy in Ohio shot a passenger pigeon out of a tree with a twelve-gauge shotgun, killing what was quickly identified as the last wild member of the species (though Greenberg has discovered evidence of a specimen taken in 1902).
A specimen taken along the rolling direction sustains large axial strains (20%), while a specimen taken at an angle of 45° to the rolling direction could only sustain 5% strain.
In our report the microsporidial spores were identified using the simple, inexpensive approach of using modified acid-fast staining technique applied to a specimen taken from a conjunctival swab, a minimally invasive approach that is potentially an appropriate first step toward the diagnosis of microsporidiosis in settings with limited resources.
Spermatozoa from a colony of a closely related acroprid coral A. millepora were collected during the 2005 spawning season from a specimen taken at Magnetic Island, Townsville, Australia.
The male of Satilatlas monticola was described by Millidge [ 19] from a specimen taken under stones at an elevation of more than 3600 m a.s.l. at East Maroon Pass, Elk Mountains, Pitkin and Gunnison Counties, Colorado, USA.
**Concurrent invasive bacterial infections were defined as a bacterial pathogen isolated from blood, cerebrospinal fluid or another sterile site from a specimen taken within 48 hours of hospitalisation; organisms viewed as likely contaminants were excluded.
It has been suggested that some of the cases in children may be less likely to attend a physician and have a specimen taken as a result of the triaging associated with NHS Direct, 7 although the people responding to NHS Direct are a small proportion of those with diarrhoea.
For this analysis, a laboratory-confirmed tuberculosis case was defined as an individual with a positive result for Mycobacterium tuberculosis on microscopy, culture or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) by GeneXpert MTB/RIF test (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California) from the current hospital admission or from a specimen taken within two weeks preceding or following the admission.
This organism is not thought to be a member of the normal microbiota, 1 and detecting even a single colony of B. pseudomallei in any specimen taken from a patient with clinical features consistent with an infective process should be interpreted as a clinically significant result.
