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Dacron-tipped swabs were moistened with sterile trypticase soy broth before rectal sampling.
Notably, rectal sampling remains an invasive procedure as compared to blood sampling, which can be performed more frequently.
GBS positivity for rectovaginal sampling (100%) was significantly higher than detection on the basis of vaginal sampling (50%), but not significantly higher than for rectal sampling (82%).
As an alternative to rectal sampling, collection of manure from the ground could possibly have allowed for finding old faeces originating from lambs.
This, however, would have been a far less sensitive sampling method because of dilution and lack of microbial survival, and rectal sampling was therefore applied.
We compared i) rectovaginal, vaginal and rectal sampling, and ii) culture on Columbia CNA agar (CNA), on group B streptococcus differential agar (GBSDA) and on Chromogenic Strepto B ID Agar (CA), iii) directly and after Lim broth enrichment.
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Immediately after evisceration, rumen and rectal samples were collected to assess bacterial loads and volatile fatty acids in the rumen.
A significant clue to the discovery that hand, foot, and mouth disease is making Cambodian children sick came when Institut Pasteur du Cambodge virologists tested not just cerebrospinal fluid, but also throat and rectal samples.
Six patients had PCR positive results, including one throat sample and six rectal samples.
S. suis serotype 2 was cultured from this throat sample and from one of these rectal samples.
For 932 of the rectal samples collected, a concomitant anogenital swab was performed, and HAdV was detected in 97/932 (10.4%) of these samples.
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