Sentence examples for testing swab from inspiring English sources

Such methods include culturing for M. ulcerans from lesion samples, testing swab samples of ulcers for acid-fast bacilli (AFB), histopathologic screening for characteristics of the disease, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to find bacterial DNA; or all of the above (3 – 7 ).

Although studies have found that VecTest, with a detection limit in mosquitoes of 5.17 log10 PFU/mL (10 ), is less sensitive than RT-PCR for detecting WNV, test sensitivity was generally high when testing swab samples from corvid species (4, 6, 8, 9 ) and certain noncorvid species such as House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) (4 ) and North American Owls (family Strigidae) (7 ).

The first step involves pre-forensic testing: swabbing the property and seeing if there are any traces of meth.

Dr. William DePaolo, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California in the Molecular Microbiology and Immunology department, compared testing swabs taken from the screens of BuzzFeed employees phones for bacteria and swabs collected from a toilet.

Before testing, swabs were soaked in 0.5 mL of the grinding solution (provided in the VecTest kit).

Consent included options for testing swabs for pneumococcus alone, and/or laboratory storage for future ethically approved studies of respiratory pathogens.

In addition, testing swabs rather than tissues eliminates the need to dissect submitted birds, thus decreasing the processing time and cost of testing and the risk for lacerations to laboratory workers (7 ).

A few minutes later, the doctor bounded in, waving the positive-test swab, and bent over to look at my throat.

Bailes added that he did not wash his hands before the test, increasing the likelihood of the drug being transferred from cash to his hands and on to the test swab.

Furthermore, the rapid test swab is unusable for other diagnostic purposes once the swab is inserted into the testing solution.

All in all, 14 out of 29 test swabs were positive, and most of the positive findings came along the letter's trail.