He drew on his memories of watching the game on television to come up with something approximating the rules, and played obsessively, using balls made by sticking cotton swabs together.
All suspected cases were either isolated or cohorted, and had nose and throat swabs collected together with sputum or bronchoscopy samples if these were clinically indicated.
Intraoperative blood loss was estimated by the nurse anesthetist by counting wet swabs and drapes together with suction volume minus volume of any irrigation fluid used.
The standardized oral care regime in place includes the debridement of the teeth and tongue by use of a suction toothbrush used twice a day together with swabbing with a peroxide rinse, swabbing with a peroxide rinse-impregnated swab every four hours, and use of a mouth moisturizer applied to the oral mucosa.
Anaerobic and aerobic culture of fecal swabs collected throughout the experiment, together with the culture in blood agar base (BBL, Sparks, MD) with 5% defibrinated sheep blood for 48 hrs at 37°C of cecal digesta collected at the end of the experiment, further confirmed GF and CONV status.
The Ebola surveillance strategy in Sierra Leone was a community-based swab test of dead individuals, together with hospital-based blood testing of suspected cases.
All patients meeting the case definition for suspected pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 underwent nasopharyngeal swabbing for rRT-PCR testing together with sputum or bronchoscopy samples if available, then commenced oseltamivir.
Anthropometric measurements were again taken at each visit together with a saliva swab.
A whole blood sample with EDTA and a serum sample were collected, together with a throat swab for viral culture to exclude a possible enteroviral infection, as part of a standardized provincial protocol for investigating suspected WNV infections in Alberta.
Only marginal differences were found between samples that had immediately been frozen together with the entire swab (protocol 1) and those which had been regained prior to freezing (protocol 2), showing variations <20%.
