Sentences with phrase «feces sample»

«If he hands me a feces sample or a bloodstain or a hair shaft, I am willing to do what I do with anything I get,» Disotell says.

Isolated from cow feces sampled at a South Carolina farm, the bug was unexpectedly found to carry a toxin resembling the toxin that causes botulism.

Not exact matches

Researchers noticed this pattern after sampling the microbial communities found in the saliva, skin and feces of 37 Komodo dragons across 12 U.S. zoos as well as the environment of two of the 12 enclosures.

The team has traveled to Palouse Falls, Riverside State Park and along the Centennial Trail near Gonzaga's campus to trap and tag the marmots and collect feces and fur for hormonal samples and dietary information.

Scientists could use darts to collect tissue samples, for instance, or collect feces to determine what the whales are eating.

The new method, first developed for automated food safety testing and then adapted by Cornell scientists for a wider range of sample types, can detect the bacteria from environmental and clinical samples, including swabs, feces, milk and blood.

Researchers collected pine marten feces and hair samples from areas with and without gray squirrels.

In this study of 879 samples of primate feces, 68 (7.7 percent) were positive for astroviruses.

For years, the standard analysis has been based on coliforms — bacteria that give an estimate of the amount of feces in a sample.

In both groups, feces and blood samples were collected and tested.

But those differences were found mostly in the biopsy samples; there weren't many differences between the feces from Crohn's patients and the control group.

Furthermore, rectal swabs and feces were compared, for the first time using high - throughput sequencing, in order to understand whether these two sample types are equivalent in describing koala gut microbiome.

For 13 weeks, Summers and her colleagues sampled feces, skin, feathers, and other organic material from two major commercial chicken houses in Georgia.

Over several hours, Midingi and Lukusa work their way through the bats that were caught in the mist net, using sterile cotton swabs to collect saliva, feces, and blood samples — the fluids that are most likely to transmit viruses.

Nunez, Kim, Sakamoto and their colleagues carried out a careful series of experiments using both newborn and adult germ - free mice, and samples of gut microbes taken from the feces of 4 - day - old, 12 - day - old and 16 - day - old normal mice.

Lauren Petersen, a professional mountain bike racer and a postdoctoral associate at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut, has sampled cyclists» feces to determine what makes the top athletes» microbiomes unique.

Their evidence: Water samples in areas with more than 1,621 septic tanks had far higher levels of bacteria associated with human feces than did areas with few septic tanks.

The microbiome from the donors feces successfully transplanted in Zayner's gut according to DNA sequencing done on samples.

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.

In fact, nearly 90 percent of towels sampled contained coliform bacteria (the kind found in feces), and 25 percent had E. coli, per research in Food Production Trends.

There also seems to be more of the general fear of bacteria, they mention that future treatments would probably not use feces, just select bacteria, in case there were any bad bacteria in the samples.

Take a sample of the feces or urine outdoors to where the «defecation station» is located and place it on the ground.

The veterinarian will ask you to bring in some samples of the puppy's feces to see if the parasites have been completely eliminated.

The sample of feces will be examined under the microscope not only for the presence of worms but for worm eggs and larvae as well.

We will also test a sample of your pet's feces.

So some dogs who stumble upon feces occasionally decide to sample it, while others become completely obsessed with eating certain specific poop.

Laboratory test performed on a sample of fresh feces to detect the presence of intestinal parasites, commonly referred to as «worms.»

The truth is, as disgusting as it is for us to witness, the sampling or consumption of a small amount of its own feces, especially if it is parasite - free, will be unlikely to cause any illness for the puppy.

Diagnosis is based on an examination of the feces (bring a sample to the vet).

Step One: Toxocara eggs are passed in the host's feces where they can be detected if a fecal sample is tested.

Samples of feces or vomit can be examined and used microscopically for detection of the virus.

Vet assistants will take biological samples, such as blood, urine or feces, for later testing by the veterinarian.

If a dog is having gastrointestinal distress, for instance, we may pull a stool sample to examine the consistency or character of his or her feces.

A veterinarian will look at a sample of feces that has been mixed with a particular type of solution that causes worm eggs to float to the surface.

Diagnosis occasionally is made through microscopic evaluation of a specially prepared sample of feces.

Candida is diagnosed by fungal culture and / or by cytology (microscopic analysis) of a specially stained sample from either the crop or feces.

During Bentley's 21 - day confinement at the decommissioned naval air base, vets wearing full protective suits brought him food and water and collected feces, urine and blood samples for tests as a lab in Dallas.

During your pet's routine wellness exam, if it is suspected that something is wrong, it becomes important to conduct certain laboratory tests using the sample of pet's blood, urine, skin, hair or feces.

«During your pet's routine wellness exam or if it is suspected that something is wrong, your veterinarian may wish to run laboratory tests using a sample of your pet's blood, urine, skin, hair or feces.

Coccidia can be readily identified when present in fecal samples, however the cysts do not shed into the feces at all times, so a negative fecal screening may not completely rule - out coccidia as a cause of diarrhea.

A stool sample will be able to analyze feces to check for worms as well as for disconnected segments.

Guinea pigs can get fleas and lice; fleas usually diagnosed by finding the adults or their feces on the skin or in the fur; lice are often diagnosed microscopically by observing either the adults or eggs (nits) on a sample of hair and skin debris.

The parvovirus test is when a sample of feces is taken to determine the presence of the parvovirus in the pet's stool.

Feces should be examined weekly for parasites, and a stool sample provided to the veterinarian for examination (ask your vet for how often you should bring in samples from each dog).

Bring a sample of stool (also called feces or bowel movement) when you visit the veterinarian so that the staff can identify parasites lurking in your cat's gastrointestinal tract.

STEP ONE: THE WORM EGG DEVELOPS AN EMBRYO: Toxocara eggs are passed in the host's feces (if a fecal sample is tested, it is possible to detect the eggs and confirm roundworm infection).

to run laboratory tests using a sample of your pet's blood, urine, skin, hair or feces.

Microscopic samples of blood, spittle, urine, feces and seminal fluid (hence such willfully provocative titles as Blood on Shit, Piss on Us and Spunk Blood Piss Shit Spit) have been photographically enlarged and arranged in tastefully modernist grids.