"Skin swabs" refers to the process of collecting a sample of cells or organisms from the surface of the skin using a cotton swab or a similar tool.
Sentences with «skin swabs»
Currently, the only way to test for the pathogen is take skin swabs from afflicted amphibians. (sciencedaily.com)
(Courtesy of Allison Sacerdote - Velat) Led by Allison Sacerdote - Velat, the Nature Museum's curator of herpetology, scientists are using a noninvasive skin swab to test the amphibians for stress and disease. (chicagotonight.wttw.com)
Starting in three weeks, he and his colleagues will collect cutaneous bacteria from mountain yellow - legged frogs in the isolated Dusy basin area of the Sierras: «We'll go in with skin swabs, take samples, culture bacteria, grow it in the lab at San Francisco State, then wait a week, go back out and inoculate a bunch of frogs,» Vredenburg says. (scientificamerican.com)