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Nocardia sputum staining [PDF]

QJM, 2013
An 85-year-old man with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) visited our hospital with cough and sputum expectoration for the past 3 days. His home had been undergoing remodeling for the past 1 month. His respiration rate was 18 breaths/min; body temperature 37.4°C and SpO2 95% (nasal cannula: 2 l/min). Coarse crackles …
T, Kenzaka, A, Kumabe
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Pathogenetic Reasoning of Administration of Mucolytic Agents for Respiratory Diseases in Children

Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2015
The paper presents the mechanisms of cough and bronchial obstruction in lesions of the respiratory tract of various origins. The effect of microbial biofilms on the course of diseases was considered particularly. The methods to restore bronchial drainage
Ye.I. Yulish
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Direct Whole-Genome Sequencing of Sputum Accurately Identifies Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Faster than MGIT Culture Sequencing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2018
The current methods available to diagnose antimicrobial-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections require a positive culture or only test a limited number of resistance-associated mutations.
R. Doyle, Carrie Burgess, Rachel J. Williams, R. Gorton, H. Booth, James Brown, J. Bryant, Jacqueline Chan, D. Creer, J. Holdstock, H. Kunst, S. Lozewicz, G. Platt, E. Y. Romero, G. Speight, Simon Tiberi, I. Abubakar, M. Lipman, Timothy D McHugh, J. Breuer   +19 more
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DISPOSAL OF SPUTUM [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1909
For some time past I have given considerable attention to the disposal of sputum, and the idea has very strongly impressed itself on me that we are altogether too careless in disposing of this dangerous factor as regards health, especially in workshops where large numbers of persons are employed and in conjunction with hotels, saloons, barber shops ...
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A rapid method for Candida DNA preparation from sputum, and its clinical application

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
Introduction: The analysis and identification of Candida in sputum specimens is of significance in clinical settings. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of a previously validated rapid method for preparing Candida DNA in conjunction ...
Qingqing Sun, Yun Xie, Hanbing Meng, Lina Zhang, Zhengxin He   +4 more
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A note on the disinfection of sputum and sputum-flasks [PDF]

British Journal of Tuberculosis, 1909
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The Role of TB-LAMP Method in Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Sputum of Patients Suspected of Having Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Acta Medica Indonesiana, 2020
Background: Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. Appropriate diagnosis is an effort to control TB. The World Health Organization has recommended loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). In
Mardiastuti H Wahid, Agus Sjahrurachman, Ardath H Sitorus, Erlina Burhan   +3 more
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High-volume culture and quantitative real-rime PCR for the detection of Aspergillus in sputum.

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2019
OBJECTIVES Sputum culture is an insensitive method for the diagnosis of pulmonary aspergillosis. Growth of the organism allows identification of the causative species and susceptibility testing, both of which can inform treatment choices.
P. Vergidis, C. Moore, L. Novak-Frazer, Riina Richardson, A. Walker, D. Denning, M. Richardson   +6 more
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Tailoring asthma treatment on eosinophilic markers (exhaled nitric oxide or sputum eosinophils): a systematic review and meta-analysis

Thorax, 2018
Background Asthma guidelines guide health practitioners to adjust treatments to the minimum level required for asthma control. As many people with asthma have an eosinophilic endotype, tailoring asthma medications based on airway eosinophilic levels ...
H. Petsky, C. Cates, Kayleigh Kew, A. Chang   +3 more
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Metabolic strategies that enable oral commensal persistence in a lower airway environment

mBio
Oral microbiota are increasingly implicated in chronic inflammatory diseases beyond the mouth, including bronchiectasis, a condition marked by persistent airway inflammation, mucus accumulation, and limited therapeutic options.
Ashley M. Toney, Junu Koirala, Apollo Stacy   +2 more
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