"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.
MeSH Number(s)
E01.370.225.998
E05.200.998
Concept/Terms
Specimen Handling- Specimen Handling
- Handling, Specimen
- Handlings, Specimen
- Specimen Handlings
Specimen Collection- Specimen Collection
- Collection, Specimen
- Collections, Specimen
- Specimen Collections
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Specimen Handling".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Specimen Handling".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Specimen Handling" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1992 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 1993 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 1994 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 1995 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 1996 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 1997 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 1998 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 1999 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2000 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2001 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2002 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2003 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2004 | 1 | 13 | 14 |
| 2005 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| 2006 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2007 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| 2008 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2009 | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| 2010 | 6 | 14 | 20 |
| 2011 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2012 | 18 | 5 | 23 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| 2014 | 14 | 8 | 22 |
| 2015 | 15 | 14 | 29 |
| 2016 | 9 | 7 | 16 |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2018 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| 2020 | 16 | 18 | 34 |
| 2021 | 19 | 17 | 36 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in Profiles.
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Pooling for SARS-CoV2 Surveillance: Validation and Strategy for Implementation in K-12 Schools. Front Public Health. 2021; 9:789402.
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Treatment Effect Measures for Culture Conversion Endpoints in Phase IIb Tuberculosis Treatment Trials. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 12 06; 73(11):2131-2139.
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Targeted Mass Spectrometry Enables Multiplexed Quantification of Immunomodulatory Proteins in Clinical Biospecimens. Front Immunol. 2021; 12:765898.
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Switching clinic-based cervical cancer screening programs to human papillomavirus self-sampling: A cost-effectiveness analysis of vaccinated and unvaccinated Norwegian women. Int J Cancer. 2022 02 01; 150(3):491-501.
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Development of at-home sample collection logistics for large-scale seroprevalence studies. PLoS One. 2021; 16(11):e0258516.
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Anatomy-oriented stereotactic approach to cerebrospinal fluid collection in mice. Brain Res. 2022 01 01; 1774:147706.
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Advanced technologies for the preservation of mammalian biospecimens. Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 08; 5(8):793-804.
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Nasal Swab Performance by Collection Timing, Procedure, and Method of Transport for Patients with SARS-CoV-2. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 08 18; 59(9):e0056921.
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Implementation of SARS-CoV2 Screening in K-12 Schools Using In-School Pooled Molecular Testing and Deconvolution by Rapid Antigen Test. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 08 18; 59(9):e0112321.
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Cooperation under Pressure: Lessons from the COVID-19 Swab Crisis. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 09 20; 59(10):e0123921.