Author: Dan Higgins, RGN, ENB 100, ENB 998, is senior charge nurse in critical care, University Hospital Birmingham. Collecting a specimen is often a first crucial step in determining diagnosis and ...

Fecal specimen collection in the clinical setting is often unfeasible for large population studies, especially because cancer patients on immunotherapy often experience constipation. A method for ...

Stool-based TB diagnosis is not yet being implemented in South Africa. But, according to da Silva, the addition of stool as an additional specimen type for TB diagnosis in children in the country is ...

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