For 23 animals overall, they analyzed
fecal samples before surgery and then weekly for 3 months.
Not exact matches
Mangalam and his team from Mayo Clinic — where all of the work was completed
before Mangalam joined the UI in 2015 — conducted microbiome analysis on
fecal samples collected from MS patients as well as healthy control subjects.
As a first step toward identifying bacteria that support athletic performance, the researchers collected
fecal samples on a daily basis from 20 athletes training for the 2015 Boston marathon, one week
before and one week after the race.
Young and colleagues used DNA sequencing to study the composition and structure of
fecal microbiota (bacteria) in stool
samples from 14 patients
before and two to four weeks after
fecal transplant.
In another trial, researchers tested
fecal samples of runners both
before and after running the Boston Marathon and found that the post-race
samples included particularly high amounts of a type of bacteria that break down lactic acid, which can lead to muscle soreness and fatigue.
Puppies and kittens often show signs of illness, usually watery diarrhea,
before there are oocysts in their stools, so it sometimes takes several
fecal samples to know if a puppy or kitten is infected.
Because the function of the worm segment is to leave the pet
before laying its eggs, it is not unusual for a
fecal examination to not show tapeworm eggs in the stool
sample.
All
fecal samples at our veterinary hospital are submitted at an outside reference laboratory, where the
samples are centrifuged
before analysis, which has been shown to significantly increase the accuracy of the test.