Some players elect to go from the toe to the heel, while others prefer the more traditional heel-to-toe method.
The bag rinse was equally sensitive at detecting Bd as the toe clip method.
For lack of more data, we considered the bag rinse and toe clip method to be equally sensitive.
In the toe clip method, we cut the terminal phalange of the fourth toe of the animal's right hind foot.
There were 25 captures that tested positive for Bd according to either the bag rinse or the toe clip method (Table 1).
These 25 animals were also swabbed but only 28% of the swabs (7/25) tested positive (Table 1) suggesting that the bag rinse and toe clip methods were 3.6 times more sensitive than the swab method.
The results of fatigue tests under the constant and variable amplitude loadings show that all the specimens have good fatigue performance and the toe-finished method can effectively improve the fatigue performance of BRBs with relatively small strain amplitudes.
The VPT and CDT were measured at the first toe by the method of limits using the TSA-II NeuroSensory Analyzer (Medoc, Ramat, Yishai, Israel).
Vibration perception threshold (VPT) was assessed using the Neurothesiometer (Horwell Scientific Laboratory Supplies, Nottingham, U.K). at the pulp of the great toe using the ascending method of limits.
For marking, both the conventional method of toe clipping and the implantation of the VIAlpha tags (Soft Visible Implant Alphanumeric tags) of Nortwest Marine Technology Inc. (Shaw Island WA, USA).
Transoesophageal echo (TOE) is the standard method for excluding the presence of thrombus in the LA appendage with high negative predictive value (96 100%) [ 37].
