Sentence examples for our swabs from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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

Previously, R. felis was found in feces from great apes in Africa [ 12] but all our canine rectal swabs were negative by PCR.

Given that people with DS are at increased risk of periodontal disease, we were concerned about blood contamination in our collected buccal swabs [ 4].

However, it is not known whether these might actually represent false-positives as, according to our analyses, OP swabs showed poorer specificity (90.2%) compared to NP swabs (96.8%) (Additional file 1).

Microbiological data concerning colonization and/or acquisition of ESBL-PE were monitored, as usually done in our unit, by rectal swabs collected at admission and once weekly for the whole duration of the ICU stay.