To increase sensitivity, at least 12 scrapings for each juvenile fox, and at least 21 for each adult fox were examined.
These fish were used for infection experiments and skin scrapings.
Genetic fingerprinting from blood samples or cheek scrapings were used in cases where the questionnaire was inconclusive.
Then he told the boy to bring in scrapings of whalebone.
Many endocarps opened by squirrels late in the season were filled with frass and endocarp scrapings, indicating that the squirrel had removed a full-grown larva rather than endosperm.
Skin scrapings from 76 patients were obtained from the edge of lesions consistent with cutaneous leishmaniasis (ulcers or scars).
Only deep scrapings were retained.
The contents of the small intestine and mucosal scrapings of each section were washed with running water and the volume of each section made up to 2 litres with water.
