Sentence examples for our swab from inspiring English sources

While waiting for our swab results, I did a little research into the dozens of haplogroups into which the world's population divided as it migrated.

We placed our swabs in test tubes, posted them to a laboratory in London and, seven days later, the results arrived.

Our swabs were collected at monthly intervals, so we have assumed that microbiology at the time of diagnosis best approximates the aetiology of that event.

Hence our low swab success rate may be due to the difference in swabbing effort.

The second PCA including blood samples showed that indeed, some of our buccal swabs had scores more similar to blood than other buccal swabs for PC1.

Finally somebody comes to me and says 'why are all of our alcohol swabs coming up dry?'… So it takes that initiative.

In our hospital, swabs are preferred over other sampling techniques (e.g. inoculation of peritoneal fluid into blood culture bottles [ 5]), but results were considered for this analysis independent of the used material as long as they originated from the peritoneal cavity.

As the "new genetics" joining chromosomes and cultures gives us ever-greater control of creating and preserving life, we'll be able to swab our cheeks to discover a range of predispositions to disease.

Nothing new about selfishness, nor about paranoia: For the rest of our lives we will be removing our shoes and waiting on the other side of the scanner while a nice woman wipes our laptop with a swab and puts it into an expensive machine to test for plastic explosives, meanwhile our children go to school at 6 a.m. to save money on buses and they doze through history and algebra.

At our institution, a gauze swab with an alcoholic solution of chlorhexidine dressing is applied and left undisturbed for the first 7 days, followed by twice daily cleaning with a chlorhexidine solution.

On the basis of our results, the vulvovaginal swab is the preferred sample for detecting gonorrhoea by NAATs in women.