It's been a busy 3 days here in Atlanta. My talk Tuesday was well-received, I have lots of new ideas for future projects, and I'll have posts on the conference itself starting, hopefully, this afternoon (last night was family time, so no posting). In the meantime, I'm writing up the manuscript for the study I presented and I thought I'd ask for some input with one small portion.
The study itself is a sampling of swine for bacterial carriage. On the first farm we headed out to (and by "we" I, of course, mean my trusty graduate student), we only had on hand as many swabs as we were going to use--no extras. Swine aren't always very cooperative, and one swab ended up getting contaminated .
So, how would you write this up? Of course in the end I'll have to go with something dry, academic and boring, but I'm sure y'all can come up with something much more creative...
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