Meanings of cloacal swabs in English

No Listeria was recovered from either oropharyngeal or cloacal swabs of farmed duck and slaughter chickens.

For serological and cultural prevalence studies, 1152 blood samples and 912 cloacal swabs were collected.

High levels of viral RNA and infectious virus were detectable in cloacal swabs and faecal samples already three days after inoculation.

Animals from healthy flocks were sampled by cloacal swabs, while intestinal and liver samples of animals suffering from necrotic enteritis were analysed.

Between February 2000 and October 2001, cloacal swabs were collected from 387 broiler chicken flocks in Northern Ireland.

Salmonella was isolated from cloacal swabs by selective enrichment, and a single isolate from each positive sample was further identified by biochemical tests and serotyped.

Lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) were sampled in the Canadian arctic during the summer of 2011, and cloacal swabs were cultured on selective media.