The Cathedral would not allow the blood to be removed from its vial for testing.
All tests were done at 24°C; adults maintained at 18°C were first equilibrated for 30 minutes at 24°C prior to being transferred to the empty vial for testing.
Seven incidents yielded swabs or vials of powder for testing.
Now, mosquitoes are sent through a tissuemizer, a lab device that shakes vials of mosquitoes until they're nothing more than liquid to extract samples for testing.
One vial from each participant was shipped overnight on dry ice to BGI for testing.
The original vials, used when the outbreak began, had already been discarded and were not available for testing by the time we were notified in January 2002.
Blood and beverage samples were mixed with IS (n-propanol) at a ratio of 0.2/0.8 in the head space gas chromatography vials for ethanol testing.
Filtered NP solution, added to scintillating vials, was tested for its ability to promote mucin aggregation and was monitored at 1 hr, 3 hrs, 5 hrs, 24 hrs, 48 hrs and 72 hrs.
Ten anthrax vaccine vials were tested for the presence of mycoplasma by standardized cultivation methods (4 – 6 ) with three different media.
Two of 25 vials tested for viability from protein extractions became positive.
More than 4 replicate vials were tested in each group and data were pooled for statistical analysis.
