A total of 355 swabs were processed, including 192 swabs from healthy women and 163 swabs from women with BV.
Monolayers of Vero cells cultured in 96-well plates were infected with 10-fold serially diluted virus inocula or processed rectal swab samples and incubated at 37 °C and 5% CO2 for 18 h.
The school nurses and teachers were trained to interview students, collect absenteeism data, interview parents, and complete data collection forms, and the nurses were trained to collect and process nasal swabs to test for influenza.
This picture was especially evident in patients 1 and 3, in whom protein concentrations of MMPs were clearly elevated when wound fluid was collected by swabbing or aspirated wound fluid processed by flocked swabs.
GT and KE processed collected nasal swabs.
A single microbiologist (JS) processed all NP swabs.
There were 32 661 environmental swabs processed during the entire study period.
Over 3600 discharge cleans were completed, with more than 32 600 environmental swabs processed.
We processed 5 bronchial swabs and lung samples from postmortem-examined pigs for real-time reverse transcription PCR (rRT-PCR) and for virus isolation in MDCK cells.
From January 1995 to December 1997, we processed 995 buccal swabs for use in polymerase chain reaction (PCR -based genotyPCR -basedin the context of ongenotypeleculassaysdeminlogic stheies.
