Preliminary random testing of suspected carrier small ruminants in a heartwater-endemic area (Keneba) in The Gambia using a nested pCS20 PCR detected a 60% (n = 14) infection rate; moreover all samples collected from clinically sick goats maintained on-station at ITC (Kerr Seringe), and confirmed as heartwater cases post mortem, tested positive by the same assay (B. Faburay, unpublished data).
Texas law does not require such a post-mortem test.
Evaluation of the sensitivity of the rapid post-mortem test for scrapie indicated that it detected scrapie in the last 25% of the incubation period.
It was further revealed that post-mortem tests had been inconclusive and Mrs Rausing's death was being treated as unexplained.
Post-mortem tests showed that Miss Walpole, a former hotel worker who had three children, had been stabbed three times and bitten.
The coroners service said in a statement that it had reached its conclusion following post-mortem testing that included an autopsy and toxicological analysis.
As for "Baby B," he said, post-mortem tests on its lungs showed that they were never aerated, indicating that the child was born dead.
Post-mortem tests established that Oliver, who had 13 separate marks on his body and face, had been subjected to at least one impact to the left side of his head.
Post-mortem tests on the brain and spinal cord of 100 individuals showed significant genetic differences between the sexes, which could account for the observed gender differences in neurological disorders, such as autism, according to scientists from University College London.
In fact, the only conclusion reached at appeal was that, because the results of post-mortem tests carried out on Harry Clark for the presence of the bacteria staphylococcus aureus had not been put before the jury at Clark's trial in 1999, the convictions "were unsafe and must be set aside".
Post-mortem tests carried out on Ms Witheridge and 24-year David Miller showed the young woman died from severe head wounds while the man had suffered head injuries and then drowned in the ocean after being attacked in the early hours of 15 September.
