Sentences with phrase «faecal samples»

In addition, they collected faecal samples of the tamarins that contained seeds.

But Rita Colwell of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues report this week that of faecal samples taken from 81 people in November 2010, 17 had a different V. cholerae that does not make the deadly toxin made by the El Tor strain.

Development and Use of a Real - Time Quantitative PCR Method for Detecting and Quantifying Equol - Producing Bacteria in Human Faecal Samples and Slurry Cultures — Lucía Vázquez — Frontiers in Microbiology Food Microbiology

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

23andMe has no plans to pursue faecal sample sequencing, although the company has considered it.

The researchers also collected faecal samples during times of extreme cold and analysed the concentration of faecal glucocorticoid (fGC) metabolite present.

The research team found that patients with faecal samples positive by the cytotoxin assay were almost twice as likely to die within 30 days as those patients with samples only positive by the alternative «gold - standard» method (16.6 % versus 9.7 %).

The team used genetic information collected on field from tiger faecal samples, to understand how landscape features — like roads and agriculture — impact tiger movement in Central India, a global high priority tiger conservation landscape.

Faecal samples revealed that ipilimumab caused a decrease in two types of bacteria, Bacteroidales and Burkholderiales, in the gut.

Individual faecal samples of 48 exclusively indoor living cats and 137 cats with outdoor access were examined by classical parasitological methods.

The findings mean that tests which detect the presence of toxin in faecal samples (the cytotoxin assay) are the most reliable indicators of true C - Diff.

The researchers measured the stress levels of the animals by analysing the stress hormone metabolites (glucocorticoid metabolites GCM) in the collected faecal samples.

When the researchers expanded their search to include all the data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal samples.

The team then took faecal samples from 25 people with melanoma and tested them for levels of Bacteroidales.

An analysis of faecal samples can be used to show that the additional hormone was metabolised by the body.

For the parasite monitoring programme run by the Swiss small ruminant advisory and health service (Schweizerischer Beratungs - und Gesundheitsdienst für Kleinwiederkäuer, BGK), we examine approximately 7000 faecal samples from sheep, goats, deer and South American camelids annually.

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling through data from faecal samples collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.

Barbara Hinney and her colleagues from the Institute for Parasitology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, screened 298 faecal samples taken from cats across Austria for single - cell intestinal parasites, so called enteric protozoa.

Using genomic data from faecal samples — a good proxy for inferring what's going on further up in the gut — from four sets of twins and their mothers, the study found that the resident gut bacteria among closely related individuals was far more similar than that between unrelated individuals.

The researchers analysed vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples collected in Peru, more specifically along the coast, in the Andes and in the Amazon.

And we more or less get this additional information for free because the vampire bat's DNA is found in the DNA that we extract from blood meal and faecal samples,» says Kristine Bohmann, who adds:

Faecal samples were collected from children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and controls.

The multi-centre study, carried out by researchers at the University of Leeds, in partnership with colleagues from the University of Oxford, University College London and St George's, University of London, tested more than 12,000 faecal samples from hospital patients to establish the best method for diagnosing C - Diff.

The dragonflies» menu was studied by extracting and identifying the DNA of prey species from faecal samples.

The study compared the main different ways of diagnosing C - Diff, including the two «gold - standard» methods: a cytotoxin assay, which looks for the presence of C - Diff toxin in faecal samples; and cytotoxigenic culture, which looks to see if there are bugs present in faecal samples that could possibly produce C - Diff toxin.

The scientist Prof. Rupert Palme of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, was responsible for the biochemical analysis of the faecal samples in the study.

In a faecal sample from a bat of the species Neoromicia cf. zuluensis they found a virus that is genetically more closely related to MERS - CoV than any other known virus.

A few months ago we showed that metagenomics allowed us to identify an E. coli outbreak strains from faecal samples and a few weeks ago a similar approach was shown by another group to deliver a leprosy genome from historical material.»

Faecal samples were collected and the normal microflora was analysed.

I would suggest getting a faecal sample done to check for protozoa as this may be causing the diarrhoea; also food sensitivity may also cause loose stools.

You could get a further test - called FCoV RT - PCR - done on a faecal sample.