Independent variables included region, age group, sex, specimen year, ICU specimen source, and surveillance system.
Kaiser's testing laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., processes 300,000 to 500,000 cervical specimens a year.
He noted that the herbarium receives about 30,000 specimens each year for identification and study.
The Autism Speaks project has obtained an average of fewer than 10 new specimens a year, said Dr. Eric London, who founded the program and leads autism treatment research at the New York State Institute for Basic Research.
NHRC regularly processes around 5500 specimens a year, about two-thirds of which come in during the influenza season from October to February.
However, the size-dependence of trophic level was not considered in their study, because they analyzed only one or a few specimens per year.
More than ten virology laboratories in Taiwan routinely collected clinical specimens throughout year and isolated viruses by using Madin Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells and identified subtypes by immunofluorescence assay (IFA).
The NRL also receives 20 panel specimens each year from the UVRI.
Based on previous SARI surveillance experience, each sentinel site was expected to generate 150 specimens per year.
The capacity to examine biopsies is around 2,000 specimens per year, but over 10,000 samples are received.
However, we have no record of receiving wood pigeons over the past decade, during which we received 100 - 200 avian specimens each year.
