In particular, we thank A.L. Ozerov for sending pinned specimens of Susanomira caucasica, Michael Balke, Martin Schaefer and Wolf Blanckenhorn for helpful intellectual contributions, and the members of the Evolutionary Biology Lab in the National University of Singapore.
Instead of sending specimens to a diagnostic laboratory, on-site diagnosis of CDV infection could eliminate shipping and processing costs and shorten test turn-around time significantly to improve disease management.
The potential disadvantage of sending specimens unrefrigerated by conventional post is that labile organisms like C. jejuni may die off before the specimen reaches the laboratory.
Other clinics have the option of sending specimens to state labs to be cultured; the results are factored into the C.D.C.'s Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project, which tracks antibiotic resistance in gonorrhea in the U.S.
Within the 21 facilities with laboratory services, only 12 laboratories had function of sending and receiving specimens (referral function) for further testing or quality assurance.
Wallace, working alone, with very little in the way of encouragement or money, drew from his extensive experience of natural history, gathered while sending back specimens for collectors.
"We plan to send specimens of the spores to the United States to see if they are the same as has been used there," the doctor said.
The number of CSF specimens tested at CPCAG increased greatly after 2006 as the number of health facilities sending specimens for testing increased (Table).
The object, still encased in much of the rock that had entombed it, had been slathered in concrete and then transported back to a museum in Berlin which was struck by a bomb during World War II, sending the specimen and hundreds of others into a jumbled heap of rubble.
Our findings show that over 50% of the laboratories sending specimens to other laboratories were dissatisfied with the timely results feedback from referral services in both private and public laboratories.
