 Specimen Handling
"Specimen Handling" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Procedures for collecting, preserving, and transporting of specimens sufficiently stable to provide accurate and precise results suitable for clinical interpretation.
| Descriptor ID |
D013048
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.998 E05.200.998
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| Concept/Terms |
Specimen Handling- Specimen Handling
- Handling, Specimen
- Handlings, Specimen
- Specimen Handlings
Specimen Collection- Specimen Collection
- Collection, Specimen
- Collections, Specimen
- Specimen Collections
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| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2004 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2008 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2012 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2014 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2015 | 6 | 3 | 9 | | 2016 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2017 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2018 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2019 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2021 | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2025 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in Profiles.
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Hoppe JE, Vigers T, Trujillo A, Hanley E, Sagel SD, Zemanick ET. Impact of Home Collection and Shipping of Respiratory Specimens on Bacterial Pathogen Detection in Children With Cystic Fibrosis. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2025 Sep; 60(9):e71289.
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Stamper CE, Hoisington AJ, Ellis JC, Lowry CA, Brenner LA. Stabilized and unstabilized sampling methods result in differential fecal 16S rRNA microbial sequencing results. PLoS One. 2025; 20(8):e0324351.
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Fierer N, Leung PM, Lappan R, Eisenhofer R, Ricci F, Holland SI, Dragone N, Blackall LL, Dong X, Dorador C, Ferrari BC, Goordial J, Holmes SP, Inagaki F, Korem T, Li SS, Makhalanyane TP, Metcalf JL, Nagarajan N, Orsi WD, Shanahan ER, Walker AW, Weyrich LS, Gilbert JA, Willis AD, Callahan BJ, Shade A, Parkhill J, Banfield JF, Greening C. Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies. Nat Microbiol. 2025 Jul; 10(7):1570-1580.
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Salis AT, Watson Z, Forcellati M, Ali N, Karmakar S, Kaur J, Rabibisoa N, Raxworthy CJ, Smith BT. Unrecognised DNA Degradation in Flash-Frozen Genetic Samples in Natural History Collections. Mol Ecol Resour. 2025 Oct; 25(7):e14121.
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Fitzpatrick MB, Behrens CM, Hibler K, Parsons C, Kaplan C, Orso R, Parker L, Memmel L, Collins A, McNicholas C, Crane L, Hwang Y, Sutton E, Coleman J, Kuroki L, Harshberger K, Williams S, Jennings A, Buccini F, Gillis L, Novetsky AP, Hawkes D, Saville M, Depel T, Aviki E, Sheth SS, Conageski C. Clinical Validation of a Vaginal Cervical Cancer Screening Self-Collection Method for At-Home Use: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 05 01; 8(5):e2511081.
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Spruill-Harrell B, Kocher G, Boda M, Akers K, Freeburger D, Murphy N, Kuhn JH, Fischer G, Maljkovic Berry I, Chandrasekaran P, Torrison J. Successful Inactivation of High-Consequence Pathogens in PrimeStore Molecular Transport Media. Viruses. 2025 04 29; 17(5).
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Navas ME, Musoke L, Van Epps P, Allen K, Coffey KC, Appleby-Sigler A, Peralta K, Del Pilar M, DuBois M, Kapadia I, Tash K, Vallone J, Barrera A, Adams J, Rajagopalan C, Rexroth K, Benator D, Melton SD, Wachsmann MB, Wais J, Catania J, Ho MQ, Benitez Espinosa R, Wigton B, Kaka AS, Niehans G, Wang-Rodriguez J, Klutts JS. Extragenital self-collection testing for gonorrhea and chlamydia: A feasibility study for expanding STI screening in the Veterans Health Administration. Am J Clin Pathol. 2025 Mar 08; 163(3):406-410.
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Crane L, Fitzpatrick MB, Sutton E, Conageski C, Favreau J, Conway K, Young S, Young J, Jennings A. Evaluation of a Self-collected Device for Human Papillomavirus Screening to Increase Cervical Cancer Screening. J Low Genit Tract Dis. 2025 Jan 01; 29(1):1-5.
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Alluhayb AH, Severance C, Hendry-Hofer T, Bebarta VS, Logue BA. Can the cyanide metabolite, 2-aminothiazoline-4-carboxylic acid, be used for forensic verification of cyanide poisoning? Forensic Toxicol. 2024 Jul; 42(2):221-231.
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Li H, Gong H, Wong TH, Zhou J, Wang Y, Lin L, Dou Y, Jia H, Huang X, Gao Z, Shi R, Huang Y, Chen Z, Park W, Li JY, Chu H, Jia S, Wu H, Wu M, Liu Y, Li D, Li J, Xu G, Chang T, Zhang B, Gao Y, Su J, Bai H, Hu J, Yiu CK, Xu C, Hu W, Huang J, Chang L, Yu X. Wireless, battery-free, multifunctional integrated bioelectronics for respiratory pathogens monitoring and severity evaluation. Nat Commun. 2023 11 20; 14(1):7539.
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