 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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in this website by year, and whether "Specimen Handling" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1995 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2002 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2003 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2004 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2008 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2012 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2014 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2015 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2016 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2018 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2019 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2021 | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in Profiles.
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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 May 01; 8(5):e2511081.
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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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Holzhausen EA, Shen N, Chalifour B, Tran V, Li Z, Sarnat JA, Chang HH, Jones DP, Goran MI, Liang D, Alderete TL. Longitudinal profiles of the fecal metabolome during the first 2?years of life. Sci Rep. 2023 02 02; 13(1):1886.
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Mercaldo RA, Marshall JE, Cangelosi GA, Donohue M, Falkinham JO, Fierer N, French JP, Gebert MJ, Honda JR, Lipner EM, Marras TK, Morimoto K, Salfinger M, Stout J, Thomson R, Prevots DR. Environmental risk of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection: Strategies for advancing methodology. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2023 03; 139:102305.
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Torok M, White A, Butterfield M, Weiss J, Scallan Walter E, Hewitson I, Jervis R. Barriers to stool specimen collection during foodborne and enteric illness outbreak investigations in Arizona and Colorado. J Food Prot. 2023 01; 86(1):100012.
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Lusk HJ, Levy SE, Bergsten TM, Burdette JE, Sanchez LM. Home-Built Spinning Apparatus for Drying Agarose-Based Imaging Mass Spectrometry Samples. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2022 Jul 06; 33(7):1325-1328.
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Windsor WJ, Knight V, Merkel PA, Lamb MM, Tucker HR, Carson K, Howard KM, Yates JL, Santiago ML, McCarthy MK, Morrison TE, Kedl RM, Frazer-Abel A, Guo K, Andersen G, Huey L, Barrett BS, Col?n-Franco JM, Lee WT, Chu MC. COVID-19 Serology Control Panel Using the Dried-Tube Specimen Method. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 01 07; 106(2):562-565.
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Yoo MJ, Schauer SG, Trueblood WE. 'Swab and Go' impact on emergency department left without being seen rates. Am J Emerg Med. 2022 07; 57:164-165.
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