Mid-turbinate swab sampling is an effective way to detect the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. Several articles discussed importance and benefits of using robotic technology alleviate healthcare workers’ daily burdens against disease 2019 (COVID-19). Therefore, a semi-automated approach for collecting samples from mid-turbinate area-approximately 4 cm inside n...

Methamphetamine (meth) from meth syntheses or habitual meth smoking deposited on household surfaces poses human health hazards. The U.S. State Departments of Health require decontamination of sites where meth was synthesized (meth labs) before they are sold. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) methods for meth analysis require wipe sampling, extraction, clean-up, solve...

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major public health crisis. Accurate screening methods for infection is essential and crucial case detection, isolation, prevention control current pandemic. At present, nasopharyngeal oropharyngeal swabs are typically used as method choice diagnosis SARS-CoV-2 infection. We carried out review on accuracy two different sampling sites, swab ...

The efficacy of different methods of sampling have been widely compared in the literature. Whilst it is recogn1sed that swabbing and sponging leave a residual bacterial population, the levels that are left are difficult to evaluate and may be Influenced by other factors such as changes to the skin due to processing. In this Food Standards Agency funded study we have used bacterial bioluminescen...

OBJECTIVES To compare a new sampling device, a brush, Accellone-Multi-Instrument (AMI), with a dacron-tipped swab for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in endocervical specimens, and to evaluate if consecutive multiple cervical sampling as compared with such a single specimen would increase the sensitivity. METHODS 501 females attending an STD clinic and 172 females attending a family planni...

This study investigates the quantitative bacterial recovery of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in nasal screenings by utilizing dry or moistened swabs within an in vivo and an in vitro experimental setting. 135 nasal MRSA carriers were each swabbed in one nostril with a dry and in the other one with a moistened rayon swab. Quantitative bacterial recovery was measured by stand...

OBJECTIVE It is standard practice to clean the skin using a non-alcohol-containing swab before forensic blood alcohol sampling, because of the belief that the use of an alcohol-containing swab will contaminate the sample. The present study aimed to determine whether cleaning the skin with 70% isopropyl alcohol swabs, before venepuncture, alters measured blood alcohol level (BAL). METHODS Volu...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of sampling (swab samples compared to destructive samples) on isolation rates of human pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica from pig tonsils. Moreover, the relative efficiency of different rapid, routinely applicable isolation methods was evaluated. Therefore, swab and destructive samples from tonsils of 120 pigs at slaughter were analyzed i...

Two-hundred eighty matched bulk stool and anatomically designed flocked rectal swab samples were collected from children admitted to the hospital with acute diarrhea in Botswana. Their parents were asked about the acceptability of the swab collection method compared with bulk stool sampling. All samples underwent identical testing with a validated 15-target (9 bacterial, 3 viral, and 3 parasite...