Sentences with phrase «take microbial samples»
Hospital doctors will have to take microbial samples from patients suspected of infections before signing a prescription.
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Dr Bayrakci and the team will collect cores of rocks and take fluid and microbial samples using two specialist robot drills.
Currently, researchers analyze microbial diversity by taking a sample they hope includes the different kinds of bacteria in the gut.
In addition, I had the freedom to conduct my own research in the Dry Valleys, taking ice samples from the surrounding glaciers to investigate microbial biodiversity in glacier ice.
Lead author of the research Dr Kelly Redeker from the Department of Biology at the University of York said «As microbial activity and its influence on its local environment has never been taken into account when looking at ice - core gas samples it could provide a moderate source of error in climate history interpretations.
But when his team compared DNA sequences from the bacteria in the rock samples with those available in databases, he discovered an entire microbial ecosystem consisting of a wide variety of both archaebacteria and eubacteria, common «modern» bacteria that normally take up residence in lush places such as cheese and humans.
However, microbial concentrations fluctuate rapidly, and it takes a day or more to cultivate and count bacteria from a given sample.
The new method takes the unknown sample and compares it against this microbial reference library.