She had always used a little brushy swab with a long handle to clean them.
He moistened a cotton swab with rubbing alcohol and slowly moved it toward my nose.
You wet a sterilized swab with purified water and rub the swab on whatever you want to test.
I found it telling that the academic researchers I asked hadn't had themselves screened (or bothered to try the experiment I had in mind, of submitting the same swab with two or three completely different diet surveys).
Each nasopharyngeal swab or aspirate was obtained using a sterile synthetic tip swab, with a plastic or aluminium shaft, and inserted into vials containing sterile viral transport medium.
However, some known factors increased the amount of skin markers available for transfer (e.g. preventing hand washing prior to the collection and applying the cotton swab with pressure and friction) (Goray et al., 2010).
In contrast, ATP assay samples were collected only from small surface areas (25 cm2) using polyester swabs (Alpha Swab with Long Handle, Texwipe TX761, Kernersville, NC), per NASA-HBK-6022 NASA-HBK-6022 NASA-HBK-6022waran et al. 2003).
At our institution, a gauze swab with an alcoholic solution of chlorhexidine dressing is applied and left undisturbed for the first 7 days, followed by twice daily cleaning with a chlorhexidine solution.
But swiping a cotton swab with a little lemon juice is just as effective.
After 24 hours, cells on the upper side of the filter were removed with a cotton swab, with the remaining cells fixed and stained using a standard haematoxylin and eosin protocol, then imaged by using an Olympus IX71 inverted microscope.
Any swab with visible secretions was coded as good.
