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Four healthy volunteers (two males and two females, median age 32 [range 26 43]) with repeatedly S. aureus-positive, high bacterial count nose swabs were selected for this study.

Rectal swabs were selected to be the first collection method for clinical specimens to promptly identify the outbreak, because some cases who had no symptoms of diarrhea had difficulty providing stool or vomitus specimens.

However, in the absence of availability of brain tissue from MZ twins discordant for depression, buccal swabs were selected as the most suitable peripheral tissue because they derive from the same embryonic cells as brain tissue (ectoderm) and have less cellular heterogeneity compared with blood (44).

A total of 201 Ct positive rectal swabs from MSM were selected, which were previously diagnosed as either LGV (n = 99) or non-LGV Ct infection (n = 102) according to the algorithm of Ct detection by the commercially available Aptima Combo 2 assay followed by an in-house pmpH LGV PCR.

Unpassaged Cryptosporidium oocysts from a total of 42 human, five lamb, and three calf rectal swab or stool samples were selected from six epidemiologically and two nonepidemiologically based collections and DNA extracts were prepared from each (Table 1).

Two piglets per litter, the lightest male and female individuals each, were selected and swabbed in the ventral nasal passages of both sides.

Of 95 collected nasal swabs of the 21 herds, 86 were selected for analysis based on the serological results.

Thirty infants from which 498 NP swabs (n = 16 NP swabs/infant) were selected from a larger cohort of 236 subjects on the basis that they had complete or nearly complete data sets collected according to the study design as described in [ 11].

Nursery and growing pigs were selected for nasal swab sampling during 2 cross-sectional studies in 2010 and 2011, where pigs showing typical clinical signs of influenza infection (e.g., fever, labored abdominal breathing, and dyspnea) were preferentially chosen for sampling.

Where possible, isolates cultured from skin sores were selected, with the remainder coming from swabs of the anterior nares.

* Serotypes 6B, 9V, 14, 18C, 19F, 23F which are included in the 7-valent conjugate vaccine were selected for analysis (at least 30 positive swabs).