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The sampling teams also take blood and faecal swabs from pigs, chickens, dogs, cats and rats and anything else living nearby.
We conducted a pilot study and collected faecal swabs from 26 patients with confirmed BU and 31 healthy household controls.
Faecal swabs were also collected from 10 healthy controls from nine non-endemic regions in Ghana (age range 8 30 years, 7 male subjects & 3 female subjects) (Table 3).
Having established a robust molecular detection assay, faecal swabs were collected from 26 PCR-confirmed BU patients (age range 2 37 years, 17 male subjects & 9 female subjects) and 31 healthy household contacts (age range 3 82 years, 13 male subjects & 18 female subjects) (Tables 1, 2).
Faecal swabs and different organ/tissue samples were obtained.
The authors wish to acknowledge Dr. Shiki Kawabe for providing faecal swabs from pups.
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In 2008, a total of 770 fecal swabs were collected from 77 turkey flocks (10 individual faecal swabs/flock) located in different regions of Poland.
Faecal swab samples were collected and sent to the laboratory at the National Veterinary Institute (SVA) for isolation of Campylobacter, speciation and genotyping.
Campylobacter was isolated from faecal swab samples brought to the laboratory and streaked out onto a selective blood free agar [CCDA-modified Preston agar, Oxoid CM 739 and SR155 supplement] within 2 hours.
Clinical samples, including throat swab, rectal swab, faecal sample, vesicular fluid, or cerebrospinal fluid, were collected from the first five HFMD cases who visited a hospital outpatient department and who had mild, probable disease.
During the study only one faecal-positive swab (2.93 × 10 PCV2 genome copies/ml) was found and obtained from gilt I1 on DAI +35.
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