Sentence examples for swab represents from inspiring English sources

Drinking water potentially samples all the birds in a cage, whereas a fecal swab represents a single bird.

The average bacterial load in normal healthy skin was 4.5 × 10 bacteria per swab, representing the normal flora.

A total of 264 swabs were taken; from these, a subsample of 99 swabs (representing 4.7% of juveniles, and 38% of swabs) were analyzed.

Skin swabs represented folliculitis, boils, and abscesses.

At the genus level, sequences from nasopharyngeal swabs represented 194 different genera (148 genera from females and 132 genera from males).

In France, goat herds with a within-herd prevalence over 40% had the highest proportion of shedder goats and highest averages of shedding quantities as determined by real-time qPCR on vaginal swabs, representing a high risk level for environmental contamination and by that transmission within farms [ 20].

In the current study we demonstrated the capacity of this biosensing platform to detect and distinguish with exceptional sensitivity, both closely and more distantly related M. pneumoniae strains in culture, and to detect M. pneumoniae in simulated throat swab samples, representing a biochemically complex and clinically relevant background.

When the 79.7% sensitivity of oral fluid versus serologic testing is corrected for, ≈50% of the submitted oral fluid swab samples represented true cases of pertussis.

Spiking experiments with serial 10-fold dilutions of M. ulcerans in human faeces showed that the smallest inoculum of M. ulcerans that was readily detected by IS2404 qPCR was 1.2×103 bacterial cells per swab (Fig. 1), which represents an overall minimum detection limit ≥3×104 M. ulcerans per gram wet faecal material.

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No obvious differences in protein recovery could be observed whether sampled wound fluid was directly frozen on the soaked swab (protocol 1) or recovered by centrifugation prior to freezing (protocol 2) (Fig. 3 A ). Rapid swab freezing after sample collection therefore represents a valuable sample-processing protocol for daily clinical routines in particular with respect to saving handling time.