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She said people should seek medical advice as soon as symptoms appear because swab testing is most effective within about 48 hours, but added that accessing clinics was a challenge.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The test could be performed using DNA collected from a blood sample or mouth swab.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

For $249, patients can order the test and mail in a swab, and after a few weeks they receive a GLP-1 “effectiveness score.”

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Screening may be done non-invasively, via saliva or a cheek swab, and women who get a negative result are cleared to compete for the rest of their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

More than once, the scurvy swab made a panic-stricken dive over the side, preferring to swim ashore, where he would cope ultimately with Dad, instead of meeting the captain on the latter’s own quarterdeck.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

It said using eDNA swabs was a "potentially useful monitoring tool" for ecologists as data could be easily missed in 'one-off' surveys like a visual bat box check.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The detective later told Tamasi not to send any of the DNA swabs for testing, she said in her deposition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

There were also issues before the World Athletics Championships when a group of Canadian athletes had to be retested after a reported 'test-tube error' meant their cheek swabs failed to comply with requirements.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

Dana next swabs Ilana’s mouth — the inside of her cheek and along the gum line — and her finger nails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

I clean it thoroughly, and painfully, with alcohol swabs, careful not to touch anything that might infect me, then redress the wound.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Tamasi swabbed for DNA samples in Spivey’s truck—door handles and such.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Officials swabbed his cheek to obtain DNA, and then moved him to Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026

And though a forensics expert swabbed the interior of the yacht for explosives, there were no testing facilities on the island, said Allan Galbraith, the superintendent in charge of Operation Rainbow.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Last year, the U.S. introduced HPV testing, where samples are swabbed from the vaginal wall rather than scraped from the cervix, as a less invasive alternative to the pap smear.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025

Devi swabbed the bottle’s stopper with a clear substance and slid it into the mouth of the bottle.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Nurses and doctors wore biohazard suits and three layers of medical gloves when they entered his room, swabbing him for virus up his nostrils and in other sites like his eyelids twice a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

They also conduct their own in-house testing, which can include extensive swabbing of surfaces, raw ingredients, finished products and areas where listeria is known to thrive, such as floor drains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

Prof Walsh, who has studied drug-resistant superbugs for 25 years, said there “should have been intensive swabbing and staff should have been more vigilant” after the bacteria was first detected in November 2021.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024

Iwasaki cautioned against the idea that people swabbing their noses with Neosporin will be a cure-all in the future.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2024

Without a janitor swishing a mop and swabbing the decks, the floor felt extremely gummy.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein