1.   The total number of patients who had stool samples analysed could only be accurately assessed in the one year period when records were computerised.

2.   And the requirement that they collect fresh stool samples was less than romantic.

3.   A special feature of the test is that it detects minute amounts of human DNA in stool samples, distinguishing it from the copious bacterial DNA.

4.   Every day, Kew and Pallansch study stool samples of patients from around the world suffering acute flaccid paralysis.

5.   First, technicians cultured stool samples from the patients believed to have been infected with E. coli at White Water.

6.   It came back in his stool sample.

7.   Now, he said, a new generation of low-cost, automated DNA tests of stool samples appears to be coming into view.

8.   On Thursday, five Department of Health Services investigators were interviewing guests and hotel staffers, analyzing stool samples and evaluating banquet and kitchen procedures.

9.   One epidemiologist is driving a mobile laboratory between Kabale, Uganda, and Goma, Zaire, taking stool samples from people in the area.

10.   One is being developed by Exact Sciences of Maynard, Mass., to detect early colon cancer by analyzing DNA in a stool sample.