Sentences with phrase «fecal samples from»

Last summer, when four Stony Brook medical students — Jaydon Kiernan, Paul Castle, Koeun Choi, and Lee Hakami — planned a health research project in Madagascar, Small explored the idea of using drones to cut the time between diagnosis and treatment by transporting blood and fecal samples from patients to the laboratory at the ValBio research center.

In the study, researchers collected fecal samples from 103 shelter dogs, 105 shelter cats, 51 owned dogs and 52 owned cats.

Methodology / Principal Findings: Fecal samples from healthy dogs (n = 32), dogs with acute non-hemorrhagic diarrhea (NHD; n = 12), dogs with acute hemorrhagic diarrhea (AHD; n = 13), and dogs with active (n = 9) and therapeutically controlled idiopathic IBD (n = 10) were analyzed by 454 - pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and qPCR assays.

Fecal samples from healthy dogs (n = 18), collected for three consecutive days and pooled, served as control samples.

They can be found on skin scrapings and sometimes show up in fecal samples from affected cats who have ingested them.

A study found that salmonella prevalence in fecal samples from organic poultry farms was significantly lower than in samples from conventional farms (6 percent versus 39 percent).

During the experimentation that followed, the researchers analyzed fecal samples from the animals.

Researchers have observed decreased levels of Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria and an increased prevalence of pathogenic anaerobic organisms such as E. coli and Clostridia in fecal samples from IBS patients.

The Prevalence of P. Copri Bacteria in the groups studied: P. copri bacteria was found most in the fecal samples from the newly diagnosed patients with 75 percent of the samples carrying the bacteria.

They took a bunch of fecal samples from vegetarians, did some DNA fingerprinting, compared it to omnivore feces, and found significantly more of the lean - type bacteria — suggesting a smaller capacity for energy gain from food in vegetarians.

The study included babies cared for in the NICU of St. Louis Children's Hospital, where the investigators collected 401 fecal samples from 84 preterm infants over the first three months of life.

We will have fecal samples from humans fed different diets (mainly differing in carbohydrate cont...

The group solicits fecal samples from people all around the world in an effort to build a comprehensive library of microbiome communities.

To investigate variation in gut microbial community composition within a species, we collected fecal samples from five groups of black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) in Mexico over an eight - week period (May - July 2009).

In nonhuman primates, most epidemiologic studies of adenoviruses have focused on their identification in fecal samples from asymptomatic animals [6], [7], [8].

The investigators collected fecal samples from the pigs, at different time points following inoculation.

Here we report the detection of SIVcpz antibodies and nucleic acids in fecal samples from wild - living P. t. troglodytes apes in southern Cameroon, where prevalence rates in some communities reached 29 to 35 %.

The researchers tested 1,556 fecal samples from 11 field sites and identified a high prevalence of Laverania infections in an area called Tshuapa - Lomami - Lualaba (TL2), a remote region in the eastern DRC.

Led by graduate student Alejandro Reyes, Gordon's team analyzed fecal samples from four sets of Missouri - born female identical twins and their mothers.

So far, the evidence Oren has gathered on these hunts — a clump of hair, several fecal samples from different areas, and some casts of footprints — has led to naught, fading like tracks in the forest.

Knight says some of the strongest evidence for a bacterial role in circadian - linked diseases lies in the final phase of the study, when the research team analyzed fecal samples from two people on a normal schedule and two more who had recently flown from the United States to Israel.

To test the theory, he and his colleagues analyzed bacteria in fecal samples from lab mice kept in normal 12 - hour cycles of light and darkness.

She knew that signals from the gut can affect how bone forms and gets reabsorbed, so her team took fecal samples from control mice in each of the three experiments and analyzed their gut microbes.

The researchers collected fecal samples from wild and captive macaques, langurs, gibbons, baboons, and mandrills from Bangladesh and Cambodia.

Analyses of fecal samples from the infants, collected during the first 60 days of life, revealed stark differences.

Using flow cytometry, in which fluorescent probes are used to detect IgA - coated bacterial species, the researchers discovered that IgA - coated E. coli were abundant in fecal samples from patients with both Crohn's disease and spondyloarthritis.

The researchers used fecal samples from patients with IBD to identify bacteria in the gut that were coated with antibodies called immunoglobulin - A (IgA) that fight infection.

She and Christine Casey, a graduate student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, collected fecal samples from the geckos and tested them against common antibiotics.

Cycloviruses were first discovered in 2009 — along with a host of other viruses — in fecal samples from South - Asian children suffering from acute flaccid paralysis, by a team led by Eric Delwart of the Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco.

So he and Tahmeed Ahmed from the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh teamed up with Jeffrey Gordon, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri, to collect monthly fecal samples from healthy and malnourished Bangladeshi children under 2.

Their study of fecal samples from 105 patients treated with immune checkpoint blockade indicates that certain characteristics of patients» microbiomes correlate with slower disease progression while other qualities are associated with rapid worsening of the disease.

To test whether a partial loss of plant - derived dietary fiber would result in a partial loss of native gut microbes, the authors also collected fecal samples from a semi-captive population of red - shanked doucs who lived in a sanctuary and received about half of the normal variety of plants eaten by wild doucs.

The team studied five normal fecal samples from Ya Ya and one mucoid, and 13 regular bowel movements from Le Le and five mucoids.

In order to identify possible microbial metabolites associated with ASD Kang and his colleagues looked for and compared the compounds in fecal samples from children with and without ASD.

He and his colleagues also worked with Bantu research assistants, and decided to collect fecal samples from the two groups for analysis.

The research was conducted using milk samples from 44 mothers in the UC Davis Foods for Health Institute Lactation Study and fecal samples from their infants at four different time points.

Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration traced the toxic strain of E. coli to the California ranch after testing bacteria - tainted spinach leaves and matching them to fecal samples from a wild boar that had been killed on the farm — the first time an outbreak of E. coli poisoning from produce had been tracked directly to its source.

When the research team took fecal samples from responding patients and transplanted them into germ - free mice — «essentially reconstituting the mice's gut microbiomes with a responding patient's microbiome,» she says — they discovered that the mice had better immunity.

We have sanitary containers for you to use to obtain a fecal sample from your pet.

Typically, cats that share litter boxes will all be infected with the same intestinal parasite, so a fecal sample from one of the cats in the group is usually sufficient to determine if an infestation exists in the home.

Ever seen a fecal sample from them under the microscope?

The doctor will check a fecal sample from your dog to see if it has any intestinal worms and a blood sample to see if it has any heartworms.

Basically, the veterinarian will mix a fresh fecal sample from the dog with a special solution, strain the mixture, put it into a test tube covered with a glass lid, spin it down in a centrifuge and then look at the material that sticks to the underside of the glass coverslip under a microscope.

Not exact matches

A sample of your microbial makeup from fecal material, the mouth, or even your forehead can be genetically tested to figure out which bacteria are in your gut microbiome, and whether it's diverse or not.

They compared fecal samples, loaded with gut microbiome members, from three groups: Amazonian hunter - gatherers and Andean farmers, both living in Peru, and an industrialized population in the U.S.. Each group possessed distinct microbiomes with varying types of bacteria, but the American population stood out for having both different and less diverse critters.

When they analyzed microbes found in fecal samples collected from mice and humans at different times of day, they discovered rhythmic fluctuations in the abundance of microbes and their biological activities.

They also swabbed a total of 272 brown bear «scats,» or fecal samples, from those same locations.

Fecal and water samples from live poultry markets and the natural environment were also collected.

It is not a project for the squeamish: To recreate the biology as exactly as he can, Mills works with fecal bacteria collected from infant stool samples.

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.