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Misinformation from sputum cultures without microscopic examination.

Only 13 of 38 hospital laboratories surveyed include a Gram stain routinely in microbiological sputum examination. In a prospective three-hospital study, 60% of over 1,200 "sputum" specimens consisted predominantly of saliva, as judged by cell composition. Compared with the results of cult...

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Hauptverfasser: Heineman, H S, Chawla, J K, Lopton, W M
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 1977
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC274808/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/336644
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