Simplified semiquantitative culture using washed sputum from children with lower respiratory tract infections

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 896-

  Murayama, K ^a   Yamazaki, T ^a   Ito, A ^a   Uehara, S ^a   Sasaki, N ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILD; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM;

EID: 23444453359     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2005.026021     Document Type: Letter

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