Sentences with phrase «skin swab samples»

In return, the team received skin swab samples from 639 salamanders belonging to 65 species, many of which are potential carriers of Bsal.

Not exact matches

Richman's company sequences the microbiome of customers who send in samples swabbed from their nose, mouth, skin, gut, and genitals.

Starting in three weeks, he and his colleagues will collect cutaneous bacteria from mountain yellow - legged frogs in the isolated Dusy basin area of the Sierras: «We'll go in with skin swabs, take samples, culture bacteria, grow it in the lab at San Francisco State, then wait a week, go back out and inoculate a bunch of frogs,» Vredenburg says.

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.

Traditionally, scientists identified human skin bacteria by swabbing volunteers and culturing the samples, but those results skewed toward microbes that grow well in the lab.

Our highly trained technicians evaluate urine, skin scrapings, ear swabs and fecal samples using a variety of equipment like the microscope, refractometer and centrifuge.

Samples are collected by vigorous rubbing of a cotton swab on affected skin, superficial skin scrapings or pressing a slide onto the skin.

The choice of medication your veterinarian will prescribe depends upon the findings of an examination and any necessary ancillary tests, such as a fecal examination for intestinal parasites or microscopic examination of a skin sample or an ear swab for ear mites.

Management options with various medications including antihistamines and corticosteroids may be useful but do not get to the underlying cause; culture of a swab of the skin may result in a useful sample for culture and sensitivity but I would start thinking about visiting a Dermatologist at this point.

The test involves taking a sample — a swab of ear gook, a bit of diarrhea, or a few cells from a skin mass — and smearing a thin layer of the sample on a microscope slide.