Interrater agreement was examined using a random sample of submissions to the American Gastroenterological Association, stratified for research type (n = 100, 1992 1995).
Samples from these persons were submitted from Arizona, New Mexico, and North Carolina (1 sample each) and Florida and Wyoming (2 samples each); for 3 samples, state of submission was unknown.
For 19 samples, state of submission was unknown.
Ramsberg et al. [ 19] scrutinized a sample of 20 submissions in Sweden (2002-2003).
All samples should be accompanied by the following information: name, address, telephone/fax numbers of sender; telephone/fax numbers for official reporting of results, if different from above; name, address and contact numbers of owner; date of sampling and submission; type and number of samples (including whether on ice, preserved, etc).; disease suspected and tests required.
To assist with an appropriate statistical analysis of the collective data, swab samples from submissions of quarantined European horses, presumed to be negative for HeV, were also utilized.
Saskatchewan mule deer samples were provided through hunter submission, and sampling of retropharyngeal lymph nodes was by the University of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre during the provincial disease control effort from 2001 to 2007.
Nonpowdery substances (e.g., environmental swab samples, letters, envelopes, packages, and other materials) constituted 58.0% of submissions to the Chicago laboratory versus 66.3% of submissions to the Springfield laboratory.
Discrepancies between the positive LabBase2/private laboratory testing and negative MRU PCR-tests may be due to the timing of sample submission or in the sensitivity of the diagnostic tests used.
