Sentence examples for drag sampling from inspiring English sources

We collected questing nymphal ticks and estimated nymphal density by drag sampling (36 ).

Questing (host-seeking) ticks were collected from the vegetation using a standard drag sampling method (Falco and Fish 1992; Ostfeld et al. 1995).

Host-seeking larvae also were collected by drag sampling at the site to further evaluate the potential for transovarial transmission of the HGE agent.

4 Ixodes scapularis nymphs were rarely collected south of the 39th parallel: only 21 nymphal I. scapularis were collected in 223,400 km of drag sampling among 60 sites south of that latitude.

Over a 1.5-week period in April May 2006, we collected adult I.  scapularis by drag sampling at 3 recently invaded sites in southwestern Michigan and 2 tick-endemic sites in Menominee County.

Rodent trapping and drag sampling in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, yielded all stages of Ixodes scapularis, the deer tick vector of Lyme disease and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE).

Indoor chlorpyrifos levels after broadcast application indicate that wipe and PUF roller measurements estimate a dermal loading that is 23 36 times greater than estimates based on hand press or drag samples (Lu and Fenske 1999).

To each drag swab sample, 100 mL of BPW were added, the bag was mixed, and the sample was incubated at 42°C overnight.

To each drag swab sample, 100 mL of BPW was added and mixed.

Examining the agreement between the two sampling techniques, Salmonella was detected in at least one litter sample and drag swab in 18% of the houses sampled.

We used the drag-sampling method in the vegetation surrounding water pans used by ungulates in 3 distinct landscape compartments (i.e. national park, mixed compartment and communal lands) characterized by a differential use by wild and domestic hosts.