Sentence examples for screening swabs from inspiring English sources

Brilliance MRSA Agar was directly inoculated from screening swabs.

Rectal screening swabs were plated on MacConkey agar with cefpodoxime (2 μg/mL).

A method of analyzing typical hospital surveillance data resulting from patient screening swabs is presented.

Fifty-nine isolates were obtained from clinical specimens and 33 from screening swabs.

At best, hospital transmission is only imperfectly observed by taking screening swabs from patients.

MRSA screening swabs were collected from the nose, perineum and wounds if present.

*MRSA positive patients are believed to be colonised or infected with MRSA based on clinical or screening swab result.

Time from ICU admission to initial negative screening swab was also categorized (1 day, 2 days, and ≥ 3 days).

Sample pairs where an infection isolate was collected within 30 days of a screening swab from the same patient were included in the analysis.

This included the total number of hospital days spent in LTHT during the 12 months before a screening swab was collected and the number of hospital admissions prior to this period.

The primary outcome of interest was previously unknown MRSA colonisation on admission defined as the detection of MRSA from a screening swab or clinical sample collected within 48 hours of admission to the surgical ward.