Two genital secretion samples were collected from each patient using sterile swabs.
Bacterial lawns were prepared on Mueller-Hinton Agar plates by dipping sterile swabs with reference bacterial cultures.
Help has partnered with DKMS, the world's largest bone marrow donor center, to process help I want to save a life kits, which contain sterile swabs and a postage-paid envelope.
The team designed the "I Want To Save A Life" kits to be as simple, and easy-to-use as possible: They consist of just a few sterile swabs and a postage-paid envelope addressed to DKMS.
Samples were taken by the ophthalmologist, immediately after delivery, without using eyelid speculum and topical anaesthetics, with sterile swabs from the lower palpebral-conjunctival surface of both eyes.
I traveled with a suitcase full of sterile swabs, masks, gloves, and 10 sleeves of petri dishes filled with growth media.
Sterile swabs were pre-wetted by peptone water and used to swab 25 cm2 of inner surfaces (of the smoked, non-smoked and chlorine-treated, and non-smoked and non-chlorine-treated plastic milk-handling containers in triplicates).
The samples were taken using sterile swabs soaked in thioglycollate over the surface of the hands of the candidate, both in the palm as in the back and with special emphasis in the interdigital spaces, and the fingernail bed.
Buccal cell samples were collected with sterile swabs (Omniswab, Whatman®).
As controls, 5 sterile swabs and 2 swabs of autoclaved and flamed scissors were also tested, handled under identical conditions.
As a negative control, nucleic acid was extracted from sterile swabs and assayed for 16S rRNA product as described above.
