Sentences with phrase «researchers swabbed»

For this small study, researchers swabbed the eyes of 20 subjects — 9 contacts - wearers and 11 non-users — to examine the types of bacteria there.

The researchers swabbed the tonsils of five uninfected monkeys with the saliva, and swabbed the tonsils of three monkeys with a concentrated high dose of Zika virus in solution.

Then, after 24 hours without bathing, the volunteers arrived at the lab, where researchers swabbed and scraped their skin in 20 places — everywhere from the nostril to the navel to that bane of low - rise jeans aficionados, the gluteal crease.

After the health care workers had finished examining both mannequins, the researchers swabbed the workers» sleeves, wrists and hands, and tested the samples for DNA from the cauliflower mosaic virus.

The last bag is opened, and the researchers swab the last animal.

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As part of what they're calling the «first systematic analysis of coffee machine - associated bacteria,» researchers at the University of Valencia in Spain swabbed 10 individual coffee pod - style Nespresso coffee makers.

The swabs, when cultured, grew colonies of bacteria that killed Micrococcus, a bacterium the researchers test to see if others might be susceptible.

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In this study, researchers analyzed throat swabs and other biological samples taken from 22,892 wild ducks and other aquatic birds collected before, during and after a 2014 - 15 H5 flu outbreak in poultry.

The researchers conducted this study using penile swabs collected from uncircumcised heterosexual men in Rakai, Uganda during a large, two - year clinical study.

To minimize the risk to researchers, Munster helped develop a protocol for collecting samples from dead animals: swabbing the outside instead of using sharp instruments to collect blood or tissue.

The researchers showed that female mice swabbed with HSV - 2 and an ointment containing ZOTEN had significantly fewer genital lesions than mice treated with a cream lacking ZOTEN.

Looking at 250 samples in the lab (116 from cotton swabs of the conjunctiva, 114 from cotton swabs of skin under the eye, and 20 contact lenses), researchers found a higher diversity of bacteria on the ocular surface than on the skin under the eye or on the contact lenses, which was a surprising result, Dominguez - Bello said.

The researchers then swabbed the ears of the mice with another known irritant — to simulate tissue damage from surgery.

The researchers found about 60 types in toenail swab samples and 40 types in samples from the webs of the toes.

Now, researchers report that a simple nasal swab may help physicians detect the disease far more accurately and earlier than current methods.

Doctors and researchers in Southampton have developed a novel way of using a swab test which can rapidly diagnose flu and other viral infections in patients with severe respiratory conditions — resulting in shorter courses of antibiotics and less time in hospital.

CDC researchers, for instance, have used mouth swabs to test dead bodies in Monrovia for Ebola; about 20 % to 30 % are now positive, down from close to 90 % during the height of the epidemic.

The monkeys who were swabbed with the high dose of virus encountered nearly 80,000 times the number of Zika particles the researchers counted in the saliva from the infected monkeys.

Neither the lab worker nor her family members sought medical attention, and all recovered within 4 weeks, after which it was too late for researchers to swab for traces of the adenoviruses directly.

The researchers ended up using a quirky but labor - intensive method for extracting blenny venom: they would pluck the little fish out of their tanks, dangle a cotton swab in front of them so that the blenny would bite the cotton swab, and then suspended the cotton swabs in a solution that drew out the venom (after putting the fish back in the tank).

For their analyses, the researchers obtained the help of the American Kennel Club (AKC) and dog breeders across the country to acquire cheek - swab DNA samples from purebred dogs at dog shows and directly from owners.

To compare the breeds, the researchers analyzed the DNA samples from the cheek - swabs for subtle differences in genetic signposts, called microsatellite loci, among the dogs.

Study participants could smell the food as well as see it (the researchers warmed it up to waft fumes throughout the room), and also were given a taste with a cotton swab placed on their tongue.

The CHIC website has information on how you — through your veterinarian — can submit samples for all your Bouviers — blood samples being preferred by researchers, though cheek swabs are perfectly acceptable.

Researchers can request access to the cheek swab DNA, blood DNA, or frozen tumor tissue being housed in the Bernese Mountain Dog DNA and Tumor Tissue Repository.

Researchers are in desperate need of cheek swab samples from Basset Hounds diagnosed with glaucoma to drive this study forward.

In a recent 18 - month sample - collecting mission, researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College swabbed and dabbed surfaces from the complete set of 466 Metropolitan Transit Authority stations to map out the first genetic profile of a city's transportation system.