Sentence examples for testing swabs from inspiring English sources

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.

In an experiment to mimic testing swabs of human faecal material, five equal aliquots of human faeces (partially liquefied by the addition of water to aid homogenization) were spiked with a 10-fold dilution series of M. ulcerans equivalent to 3.2×105 organisms per gram, and a sixth aliquot was included as an unspiked control.

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.

Our data support previous reports and national guidelines that suggest benefit of testing swabs obtained from oropharynx and anorectum in addition to urethral samples in MSM [ 4- 14, 21, 22].

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 ).

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

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

Adding to the problem, she said, many staff members were at home sick and supplies like flu test swabs were running out.

In an April 19 email to his officers, the airport's police chief, Ed Skvarna, said TSA no longer will test swabs taken of unattended bags in the public areas of the terminal.

The program employs drug-sniffing dogs and ion scanners to test swabs rubbed randomly on the hands of visitors and some staff.