Repeat cultures from an individual patient growing the same organism within 14 days, cultures reported as normal flora or probable contaminants (eg. coagulase-negative staphylococci from a single blood culture bottle), and clinical specimens from patients aged < 18 years, were excluded.
He might not have given the police a 39-page deposition full of revelations about the royal family, such as Prince Charles's insistence that his valet hold a specimen bottle while he urinated into it.
A series of stories have collected about him: that he squeezed Prince Charles's toothpaste for him, held his specimen bottle when the prince had a broken arm, and that he allegedly called a Highgrove colleague "a fucking nigger typist".
This came after lurid details from a book by media-hungry former royal employee Paul Burrell, which revealed that Michael Fawcett, a close aide of the Prince of Wales, once had to hold a urine-specimen bottle, while his master filled it.
Specimen disposal from the needle is achieved by reintroduction of the trocar or saline flush into a specimen bottle.
The study was considered to be of negligible risk to participants (field workers did not have any contact with the children and the inconvenience to parents involved providing clinical and demographic information that was not available in the child's hospital folder and scooping the stool from their child into the specimen bottle provided) and exempted from full ethical review.
"I didn't have specimen bottles, so I made a deal with the local clinic to save me glass bottles from antibiotics," he says.
On the second floor of the museum, a life-size plastic replica of Dr. Mengel inspecting a butterfly through a magnifying lens sits behind his desk, surrounded by specimen bottles and neatly organized wooden cabinets.
For the quantitative analyses of zooplankton, 100 l of water were filtered through plankton net made up of bolting silk (No: 10; mesh size 150 μm) and the plankton biomasses were transferred to the specimen bottles (pre filed with 5% formalin) and subjected to stereo microscopic analysis.
Crosses were performed at 25°C in urine specimen bottles.
