Sentences with phrase «swab culture»

Other tests the veterinarian will likely perform are radiographs (x-rays) of the chest and abdomen, echocardiogram (EKG), endoscopy, nasal and throat swab culture, and a fine needle biopsy of the fluid in the lungs and chest cavity if necessary.

A throat swab culture is a test that doctors use to diagnose bacterial infections in your throat, such as strep throat.

So your veterinarian might add some other tests (like fluorescein dye examinations, swab cultures and cytology) to help rule out other causes or cases that might have multiple causes.

Not exact matches

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

If I have a bunch of cells from a throat culture or other medical swab, that isn't a human life.

@kale: here is a comparison as to what a scienctist offers and what a preacher offers; i will use my self in both situations.let's say you have a toothache i walk up to you, produce a microscope, take a swab of the inside of your mouth, place it on a culture disk and show you all the little bacteria through the microscope naming each and their effects on your body.

Swabs, BTW, don't give instant results - you don't have time to wait for cultures in labour.

After its use, I get back a culture swab negative for GBS, and have had no cases of newborn infection.

Best way to diagnose that would be to have both your milk cultured (literally express milk into a UA cup to be sent to the lap for a culture) and have the effected area swabbed and cultured.

A swab of a patient's bladder cells were cultured in a dish, molded to the shape of the bladder, and tacked onto their original damaged organ, restoring function.

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.

They also perform a diagnostic ultrasound examination and culture blowhole swabs for respiratory - system bacteria.

In a paper published in The Lancet in February, RIVM virologist Marion Koopmans and her colleagues reported that they could detect the H7N7 virus — using the polymerase chain reaction or by culturing the virus — in eye swabs from 89 patients.

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.

A chief contention is whether negative tests results from a rapid analysis of a throat swab, done in a doctor's office, should be confirmed through a follow - up laboratory culture.

A swab can be taken and grown in culture.

A swab sample for bacterial culture can be taken to help guide treatment.

To identify bacterial, viral or fungal infections, your veterinarian will take a swab of your pet's eye and submit it to the laboratory for culture.

If the infection is less than 3 weeks old, it may be possible to actually culture the virus from swabs from the nose or vagina.

However, for definitive diagnosis swabs from the eyes of affected cats should be sent to a veterinary laboratory where the organism can be identified through culture or through molecular diagnostic techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

A swab for bacterial culture can be taken to help guide treatment.

I can pilot a culture swab with unflagging speed and quickly perform snap tests.

To diagnose MRSA in humans and animals, a swab of the infected area is sent to a laboratory for bacterial culturing and antibiotic sensitivity testing.

Your vet can take culture a nasal swab from a recovering horse and let you know when the animal is no longer a bacterial risk.

During surgery to remove the infection, your veterinarian may take a swab of the ear canal to send to a laboratory for culture and sensitivity testing.

This also allows an opportunity to collect samples of wax to look at under the microscope, and swab the ear for culture and sensitivity.

Treating with surgery: vulvoplasty Before anesthesia and surgery, blood work, a urinalysis and a bacterial culture (a sterile swab) are typically performed.

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.

After my nasal passages were swabbed for culture, my doctor started me on a course of stomach cramp and diarrhea inducing Ciprofloxacin.

In - depth diagnostic tests may include blood work, stool and rectal swab samples for parasite examination and culture, radiographs, and endoscope exam.

Swabs of the nasal area that are examined under the microscope are sometimes diagnostic, as are fungal cultures of the area.

An ear culture is a lab test where your veterinarian swabs your pet's ear and sends the sample in to a lab, which actually determines what organism is growing in there and what medication will treat it.

If an ear infection exists, the ear canal may be swabbed to send samples to a reference laboratory for culture and susceptibility testing.

If culture is being performed to screen samples and send isolates (on plates, paddles, swabs, or any other approach) to a diagnostic laboratory for subsequent testing, clinicians must contact their laboratory to determine if those items will be accepted.

For example, it is important for therapy pets to receive treatments for parasite prevention, rabies vaccination and screening nasal swabs and fecal cultures for MRSA.

After her 2014 — 15 residency at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she worked with biologists to grow bacteria swabbed from 100 women in the art world (including artist Juliana Huxtable and gallerist Rachel Uffner), Yi debuted her cultures in a solo exhibition at Chelsea space The Kitchen in March.