"We wanted to have a specimen for the hall," Tammy Pittman, the museum's co-director, said one recent Sunday.
"Here we have a specimen that basically goes right up to the boundary, indicating that at least some dinosaurs were doing fine," Lyson says.
However, the reported number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths may only represent a small fraction of the true numbers because not all persons who are infected seek medical care and have a specimen collected.
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.
Three additional children tested positive for eae and stx1 at the local laboratory in mixed fecal culture but the NRL was unable to isolate STEC for two of the children and the third child did not have a specimen provided to the NRL.
With some notable exceptions, culture-confirmed patients <5 years of age had demographic or clinical characteristics similar to those of the 396 young children from the surveillance area who were either culture-negative or did not have a specimen collected for culture.
