For hospitalized patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) positivity, conjunctival swab (CS) positivity is 12.7 percent, and 45.1 percent have at least one ...

Serum and conjunctival swab samples were taken from 6 of 11 cases. The ZIKV RNA was detectable in serum no more than 5 days after symptom onset, but it was detected in conjunctival swab samples ...

Most of cases of conjunctivitis do not require testing. Conjunctival swabs should be reserved for neonates, immunocompromised patients and those with suspected HSV infection. In a child with ...

The trial's core results 1 refer to a subgroup of 41 COVID-19 patients whom the researchers managed to screen with both nasopharyngeal and conjunctival swabs less than 48 hours apart. This way ...

“In many cases, the conjunctival swabs are performed late in the course of the disease. Since the virus load goes up and quickly drops, if you do a conjunctival swab late, it will be negative ...

Of the 12, two tested positive for coronavirus in conjunctival swabs. Though there's limited research on the topic, other available studies don't show a rate that's nearly that high. One study ...

In February 2002, clinicians at the Dartmouth College Health Service recognized an outbreak of conjunctivitis; cultures of conjunctival swabs implicated Streptococcus pneumoniae. An investigation ...

Genome sequencing from a conjunctival swab taken from the worker revealed that all gene segments of the virus were closely related to the H5N1 viruses detected in dairy cattle and wild birds in ...

At that time throat, rectal and, in some cases, conjunctival swabs were collected in 5-ml. screw-capped vials containing 2 ml. of bicarbonate-buffered Hanks balanced salt solution (pH 7.0 ...

COVID-19 has been found in conjunctival swabs and tears of infected patients, according to a new study published in The Ocular Surface. The discovery prompted a research team including Shahzad ...

The laboratory information system was searched for all bacterial conjunctival swabs and all ocular gonococcal PCR swabs obtained from any patient attending the RVEEH and any newborn attending NMH ...

In the latest development, Italian medics collected the tears of 91 people admitted to hospital with the coronavirus via a "conjunctival swab". Read more: 'Significant' eye abnormalities in severe ...