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Patients who are diagnosed to have Chronic bronchitis (Presence of cough and sputum production for at least 3 months in each of two consecutive years), now presenting with increased sputum quantity, purulence and dyspnoea with or without fever and leukocytosis.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND BACTERIOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY PATTERN OF SPUTUM IN ACUTE EXACERBATIONS OF COPD

We also assessed for bacterial species present on cough plates and in sputum samples to enable comparison of transmission frequencies among pathogens.

Aerosol Transmission of Aspergillus fumigates in Cystic Fibrosis Patients in the Netherlands

Symptoms: Cough with sputum, fever (more than 98.4 AdegF), sweating and shortness of breathing

Role of Bronchial Washing Gene Xpert in Sputum-Scarce Cases of Suspected Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Sputum bacteriology of patients with acute exacerbations of bronchiectasis.

Sputum bacteriology of patients with acute exacerbations of bronchiectasis

The present study was conducted with an objective of comparing the efficacy of various counter stains in Auramine O staining method enabling better detection of acid fast bacilli in sputum smears.

Evaluating Different Counter Stains in Fluorescent Staining Technique for Detecting Acid Fast Bacilli: Best Amongst The Better

Spontaneous sputum was collected from LC patients just prior to bronchoscopy, and sputum induction through 3 inhalations of 4% hypertonic saline (7 min each) was used for cancer-free patients and healthy volunteers.

Detection of sputum cofilin-1 as indicator of malignancy

"Low-strength evidence suggests that smoking marijuana is associated with cough, sputum production, and wheezing," the authors write.

Smoking Marijuana May Be Tied to Cough, Sputum Production; Insufficient evidence for link between marijuana and pulmonary function, obstructive lung disease

The trial of the participants found that each five mg/kg per day increase in rifampin increased the elimination rate of TB bacteria from sputum. The trial also looked at rifampin concentrations in plasma and found that elimination rates of TB bacteria were significantly related to higher rifampin concentrations.

Higher rifampin can be more effective to fight TB

Date, venue and timing of free chest camps where medical consultation and sputum smear microscopy (SSM) diagnostic service was to be provided free of cost to TB presumptive cases in that community were also announced.

Effectiveness of outreach chest camps in detection of missed TB cases in Pakistan

This is a cross-sectional study which intends to compare the nutritional status between sputum smear positive and sputum smear negative newly diagnosed cases of PTB.

Nutritional status in sputum positive and sputum negative cases of pulmonary tuberculosis

Of these 24 patients, 10 (46%) patients had a positive sputum or tracheal secretion sample with negative BAL or bronchial washings.

Positive Pneumocystis jirovecii Sputum PCR Results with Negative Bronchoscopic PCR Results in Suspected Pneumocystis Pneumonia

Before availability of the Xpert MTB/RIF test, the diagnosis of pulmonary TB in resource-limited settings was based primarily on detection of acid-fast bacilli by sputum smear microscopy.

Impact of Xpert MTB/RIF rollout on management of tuberculosis in a South African community