Sentence examples for bacteria in a sample from inspiring English sources

The agency said the company had volunteered to issue the latest recall after food inspectors in Florida discovered the bacteria in a sample of its products.

It also improved the sensitivity of culture tests for influenza; it seemed that in many cases 'flu infections were missed because the bacteria in a sample were outcompeted by more robust bugs, and so never grew into identifiable colonies on a petri dish.

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis was used to determine the dominant bacteria in a sample from the Penn Mine (Figure 3 and Table 3).

To assess the accuracy of T-RFLP community profiles representing the relative abundance of bacteria in a sample, five species of ruminal bacteria were used to construct simple "communities".

Determination of the number of bacteria in a sample was performed essentially as described previously [ 18, 24].

And vice versa: 50% of green fluorescing bacteria in a sample does not mean that there are 50% vital cells.

In contrast, many bacteria were found only in the clone library, supporting that DGGE only detects the dominating bacteria present in a sample.

Selective plating may be used to identify the constituent species and to obtain an order-of-magnitude estimate of the initial concentrations of bacteria present in a sample.

Different preservation mechanisms can be used to halt the growth of bacteria present in a sample.

"When somebody says they are going to sequence all the bacteria in a soil sample, well, that's rubbish," said Dr. Julian Davies, an emeritus professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of British Columbia.

Researchers have found a new way of testing for tuberculosis that is fast, cheap and widely available: large rats that can smell the bacteria in a sputum sample.