DNA sequences for additional specimens collected across the geographic ranges of additional species are needed to test and validate this result.
Low invalid rates expedite time to result and avoiding the unnecessary use of additional specimens for retesting.
Liquid based cytology, which is presently assessed in some UK laboratories, allows adjunctive HPV testing using a commercial gene probe HPV DNA Hybrid Capture II (Digene/Abbott, Maidenhead) without the need for an additional specimen.
For the acutely ill febrile returning traveler, serologic test results may be negative, as occurred for 2 of our patients for whom an additional specimen was required for diagnosis.
We thank D. Buckley, J. Exum, M. Goode, W. Hicks, B. Mansell, and I. Martinez for assistance in the field and D. Bartlett, A. Braswell, S. Dartez, S. Davenport, J. Ernst, T. Finch, S. Graham, J. Huner, J. Kloepfer, B. Means, B. Moon, T. Papenfuss, P. Ralidis, A. Savitzky, D. Stevenson, E. Timpe, S. Trauth, and P. Wyatt for collecting additional specimens for this research.
Muscle, liver or urine may be additional specimen types useful for clinical evaluation.
An additional specimen, the first one obtained, taken from a bronchoscopy on March 8 at an Atlanta hospital, is no longer available for retesting, Dr. Cohen said.
Additional specimen examined (paratype) PHILIPPINES.
RNA was successfully extracted for all tissues with the exception of the S. sipylus PMG, for which the extraction failed and for which no additional specimens could be obtained.
In addition to the bats studied before, we examined additional specimens for ZEBOV infection (238 for IgG, 1468 for RNA) and for MARV (1438 for both IgG and RNA).
In cases with sampling error, several more days are required to perform repeated biopsies and histologic assessment for additional tissue specimens [ 7, 8].
