Validation of a rapid diagnostic strategy for determination of significant bacterial counts in bronchoalveolar lavage samples

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-81

  Laupland, Kevin B ^a,b   Church, Deirdre L ^a,b   Gregson, Daniel B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c CALGARY LABORATORY SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENTIAN VIOLET; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENAZINES; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 11844261264     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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