To investigate the drug resistant gene profiles and molecular typing of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates collected from clinical specimens in a comprehensive hospital, Jiangsu province.
Casual visitors can stroll through the greenhouses and past the borders that hold the living part of the collection, but the really good stuff--a comprehensive collection of dried specimens stored in the herbarium--is saved for the scientists.
PERCH will collect a comprehensive array of specimens, including nasopharyngeal, oropharyngeal, and induced sputum specimens from the respiratory tract, blood specimens, and urine specimens from all patients, and in some study sites, lung aspirates from patients with pneumonia and/or lung biopsies from deceased patients.
The first complete specimens were collected as part of a comprehensive investigation of Liberian fauna in the 1870s and 1880s by Dr. Johann Büttikofer.
No type specimen was designated, though Seba included a comprehensive description in Latin and an accurate illustration of a juvenile.
Access to these pages is possible through direct link in the project console (1 in Figure 1) that includes a comprehensive list of all specimens included in the project.
Also, a comprehensive analysis of the specimens was not done for known respiratory pathogens other than RSV and P. jirovecii.
Although these studies have made substantial contributions to our knowledge about uremia and its optimal treatment, they may have limitations including suboptimal statistical power, lack of detail in data collection, or inability to store a comprehensive battery of biological specimens for future analyses.
We used a comprehensive list of tissue specimens and highly quantitative miRNA assays to identify several groups of miRNAs that had specific expression in certain tissues, and examined the expression of their predicted target genes in the same tissue types from public microarray database.
Because of the rarity and quality of specimens, it has been difficult to conduct a comprehensive review of this family.
