nasal swabs
Multicenter Evaluation of the Xpert MRSA NxG Assay for Detection of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Nasal Swabs
... rayon nasal swabs (n ⫽ 1,103) and flocked swab (ESwab) nasal specimens (n ⫽ ...rayon swabs and ...flocked swabs. The overall sensi- tivity and specificity of the rayon swabs were ...
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Protocol for Real Time PCR Identification of Anthrax Spores from Nasal Swabs after Broth Enrichment
... Protocol for direct identification of B. anthracis spores from nasal swabs. On the basis of our experience and previously described findings, the following experimental procedure was set up: (i) spores are ...
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Mailed versus frozen transport of nasal swabs for surveillance of respiratory bacteria in remote Indigenous communities in Australia
... Methods: We sampled every individual who presented to a remote community clinic over a three week period in August at a time of low influenza and no respiratory syncytial virus activity. Two anterior nasal ...
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Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosisComplex in Cattle by PCR Using Milk, Lymph Node Aspirates, and Nasal Swabs
... by nasal swab and lymph node aspirate examination, revealing 12% false positives to the skin ...The nasal swab analysis only permitted identification of 58% of infected ani- mals and 28% of noninfected ...
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Pilot study of participant-collected nasal swabs for acute respiratory infections in a low-income, urban population
... There were limitations to this study. Although there was high compliance with returning the self-swab samples, and all participants reported returning them within 2 days, there was wide variation in arrival time of ...
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Development of nested PCR assays for detection of bovine respiratory syncytial virus in clinical samples
... Nasal swabs collected from cattle with no symptoms and cattle in the acute stage of respiratory disease were analyzed for BRSV by the immunofluorescence IF method and by the PCR-F and PC[r] ...
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Staphylococcus aureus colonization in hemodialysis patients: a prospective 25 months observational study
... The SaDial study revealed a cross-sectional S. aureus prevalence in hemodialysis patients between 33 and 46%, which is higher than the local general population (SHIP-TREND-0, mean 25%), but rather in the lower area ...
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A proof of concept study to assess the potential of PCR testing to detect natural Mycobacterium bovis infection in South American camelids
... and nasal mucous using bead beating was developed and applied to the simulated clinical ...on nasal swabs and faeces or directly on bloods could be used to detect ...
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Two Color Hybridization Assay for Simultaneous Detection of Bordetella bronchiseptica and Toxigenic Pasteurella multocida from Swine
... that the colony lift-hybridization assay described here is more sensitive than standard methods since it permits the detection of even a few colonies whose presence and morphology are masked by overgrowth of other ...
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Experimental Infection of Reindeer with Cervid Herpesvirus 2
... in nasal and vaginal swabs from animals in both groups but could be isolated only from nasal swabs in the respiratory group and from vaginal swabs in the genital ...PCR-positive ...
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Distinct immune responses and virus shedding in pigs following aerosol, intra-nasal and contact infection with pandemic swine influenza A virus, A(H1N1)09
... in nasal swabs at day 1 compared to contact infected animals and it may be difficult to show protective efficacy, especially of T cell based vaccines, which do not prevent virus entry into ...
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Accurate Detection of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Mixtures by Use of Single Bacterium Duplex Droplet Digital PCR
... In recent years, droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) has been developed and used for many clinical applications due to its absolute quantitation without a calibration curve, unparalleled sensitivity, and precision (20–22). One ...
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Development and Validation of a Rapid Immunochromatographic Assay for Detection of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Antigen in Dromedary Camels
... We present here a rapid immunochromatographic assay for the detection of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) antigen in the nasal swabs of dromedary camels. The assay is based on the ...
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Isolation, Identification and Antimicrobial resistance profile of staphylococcus aureus and occurrence of methicillin resistant S. aureus isolated from mastitic lactating cows in and around Assosa town, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia
... (2013): Identification and Antimicrobial susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from milk samples of Dairy cows and nasal swabs of farm workers in selected dair[r] ...
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Occurrence of Free-living Amoebae in Nasal Swaps of Patients of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Critical Care Unit (CCU) and Their Surrounding Environments
... in nasal swabs of hospitalized ...74 nasal swabs positive for Acan- thamoeba species in healthy individuals were found ...in nasal swabs of patients or healthy indi- ...
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Controlled exposure as a management tool for Glassers disease
... the swabs from sick pigs, except on Farms 15 and 16. Nasal swabs were taken from three or 10 pigs (Farms 16 and 15 respectively) from which lung samples were also taken at ...necropsy. Swabs ...
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Adverse Health Effects of Indoor fungi during a Rainy season in Northern part of Anambra State Nigeria
... from nasal swabs of occupants of various environments were consistently the dominant airborne fungiin the corresponding indoor ...from nasal mucosa of patients suffering from chronicrhinosinusitis ...
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Oropharyngeal and nasal Staphylococcus aureus carriage by healthy children
... and nasal swabs were collected during the second and third week of December 2013 from chil- dren and adolescents attending five schools in Milan, Italy (two primary schools, two middle schools, and one high ...
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A Pyrosequencing Based Approach to High Throughput Identification of Influenza A(H3N2) Virus Clades Harboring Antigenic Drift Variants
... (throat swabs, nasal swabs and washes, nasopharyngeal swabs, and sputum specimens) (n ⫽ 27) that were collected between 1 October 2013 and 1 July 2015 in the United States and other countries ...
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RESISTOTYPES OF ISOLATED FROM FOALS WITH Rhodococcus equi RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS
... A total of twenty eight R. equi isolates from foals with respiratory problems from various parts of Haryana and Rajasthan were used. Nasal swabs from each case were collected in Cary-Blair transport medium ...
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