EM laboratories can receive different types of specimens for diagnostics. For example, a public health laboratory may deal mostly with viral cultures and human body fluids. The EM laboratory at Duke University Medical Center processes over 1,000 specimens per year for virus detection. Approximately 80% of them are body fluids, with an occasional tissue culture supernatant for negative staining; the remaining 20% are tissues and cells for thin sectioning.

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