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<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new shape for a feces sampling tube for efficiently collecting feces in a wide range of conditions between soft feces having a relatively large moisture content and hard feces having a relatively small moisture content. Ž<P>SOLUTION: The feces sampling tube includes an approximately tubular container 10 having one open end 12 and a closed other end 11 and for housing a culture medium therein; a cap 20 detachably mounted to the open end of the container; and a feces sampling body 30 integrally fixed to the cap. A plurality of liens of recessed grooves 35 are spirally formed in the surface of the feces sampling tube in a direction tilted at a prescribed angle to an axial direction. It is thereby possible to efficiently sample and hold even hard feces in the recessed grooves by the linear insertion/extraction movements of the feces sampling tube in and from the feces. Ž<P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT Ž
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