Culturing bronchial washings obtained during bronchoscopy fails to add diagnostic utility to culturing the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid alone

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 99-105

  Keith Pinckard, J ^a   Kollef, Marin ^a   Michael Dunne, W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET; VIRUS CULTURE; YEAST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0036089832     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(02)00372-3     Document Type: Article

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