Sentence examples for swabs where from inspiring English sources

Oxygen depletion within the wrap may have lowered the ability to detect P. aeruginosa especially in older swabs where it had been present.

The first provisional protocol we provided to the sentinel clinics for the collection of specimens required both throat and rectal swabs and vesicle or ulcer swabs where possible.

Sampling in case and control herds was performed according to the same protocol used at the first visit, except for nasal swabs where a different convenience sample of animals was used.

Since throat swabs provided a reasonably high yield of enterovirus isolates, we made the decision in 2000, to require throat swabs as the primary specimen from the sentinel clinics, with vesicle swabs where possible, while rectal swabs were not required.

Of the ED swabs where recovery of NTHi was not affected by masking, NTHi was cultured from a greater proportion of EDs in the PCV7 group (53 %) compared to the PHiD-CV10 group (35%%).

DNA sequencing was used to identify the type of fungi present on a subset of swabs exhibiting varying degrees of visible mould growth (10 swabs where no mould was seen, and 20 each where low, medium and high levels, respectively, of mould contamination was present).

"In-hospital acquisition" was established if patients had an ESBL-E identified on a discharge swab where the admission swab had been negative.

Also, although not consistently significant, higher titers of virus were detected from groups with a single swab where the swab was left in the vial during transport, suggesting that removing the swab may marginally decrease virus detection.

Furthermore, a lower limit of detection at least as low as 82 CFU per sample was observed with spiked throat swab samples, where a loss of sensitivity was anticipated given the increased background complexity, as previously observed with rotavirus detection by NA-SERS in cell lysates [11].

Capsaicin was tested in the cotton swab assay where TRPV1 knockout animals found it less aversive than wild type mice.

One of the foals in which no antibodies could be detected was sampled only 1 h after intake of colostrum and another was the foal with no bacterial growth in the swab sample, where the dam had been treated with antibiotics.