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National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: Specimen Collection Procedures Manual   Add to my SOP compendium

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This document describes the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) program of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) protocol for obtaining and shipping hair specimens for quantification of mercury levels. The document also contains the NHANES procedure for collecting and shipping nasal swabs for bacterial culture. This document is a product of the NHANES project at the CDC and is available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/nhanes_01_02/specimen_collection_year_3.pdf.

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Biospecimens
  • Tissue - Hair
  • Cell - Nasopharynx
Diagnoses
  • General
Topics
  • Biospecimen Acquisition
  • Biospecimen Processing
  • Biospecimen Shipment
  • Storage

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