Sentence examples for swabs can be from inspiring English sources

To detect viruses, swabs can be placed into a red-top blood collection tube with a few drops of sterile saline or viral transport media if available.

The LCE1D gene in skin swabs can be detected up to 21 days after collection (Abd El Razik et al., 2015).

(6) Finally, even consumables and cotton swabs can be contaminated with human DNA [15], [16], [17].

Although bite site swabs can be used, bite sites are rarely identified in animals either in life or during a postmortem examination.

Our study shows that Self-HPV swabs can be successfully transported in a dry state at ambient temperature without greatly altering specimen integrity.

All five remaining infected alligators became viremic on the last 1 to 2 days of swabbing or after daily swabbing ceased, so no positive swabs can be reported from them.

A second swab can be sent to a laboratory for DNA profiling (for an additional fee of $59.95 -- envelope included).

However, only one swab can be included in each assay tube.

Home sampling kits (urine or vaginal swab) can be requested through this website.

A 1 5 mm plastic loop, a sterile blunt spatula or cotton or rayon tipped swab can be used.

Wong et al. have shown that oral swabbing can be used to detect virus and shedding in guinea pigs at isolated intervals after infection (9 ).