sputum culture

So I checked the computer to see what bacteria were in her sputum culture.

Sputum culture results are of great value in determining antibiotic resistance.

Response to treatment must be obtained by repeated sputum cultures (monthly if possible).

If an infection is suspected, blood, urine and sputum cultures are usually the first step.

In a hospital setting, a sputum culture is most commonly ordered if a patient has a pneumonia.

All sputum cultures from the index case have continued to grow the epidemic strain.

Tests include a Gram stain and a sputum culture.

X-rays, sputum cultures and further medical examinations are needed to determine whether the person actually has the disease.

"Nancy Wiggens had gone up to get a sputum culture and draw the man's blood.

The routine diagnosis for TB patient is sputum culture based.

The blood, urine, and sputum cultures were negative.

Blood and sputum culture has often already been performed in the setting of community acquired pneumonia needing hospitalization.

Sputum culture grew Pseudomonas aeroginosa that was sensitive to ciprofloxacin.

Healing rates (measured as sputum culture conversion) were significantly better in patients who additionally took delamanid.

In some patients, there was four-fold increase in antibody response before the first sputum culture of P cepacia.

Sputum culture yielded only normal flora, two blood cultures were negative, and the serological evaluation was unremarkable.

A throat swab is not sensitive but is 100% specific if positive, and compares favourably with sputum culture.

However, the difficult culture process for this slow-growing organism can take two to six weeks for blood or sputum culture.

His contact with Kevin Carpenter had occurred about ten o'clock in the evening, when he'd visited the patient to obtain a sputum culture.

A chest X-ray and multiple sputum cultures for acid-fast bacilli are typically part of the initial evaluation.

Two patients had coinfection by M. tuberculosis and M. avium in their sputum culture.

Transtracheal sputum cultures (rarely done).

However, diagnosis is suspected after there is no response to multiple antibiotics, and blood and sputum cultures are negative for organisms.

In a sputum culture and sensitivity, a sample of mucus is placed in a container with substances that will make bacteria or fungi grow.

Transtracheal sputum cultures are tests performed on a mucus sample obtained directly from your windpipe (trachea).