A prospective study of the diagnostic utility of sputum Gram stain in pneumonia

Journal of Infection

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-89

  Anevlavis, Stavros ^a   Petroglou, Niki ^b   Tzavaras, Athanasios ^b   Maltezos, Efstratios ^a   Pneumatikos, Ioannis ^a   Froudarakis, Marios ^a   Anevlavis, Eleftherios ^b   Bouros, Demosthenes ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Konstantopoulio Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Diagnostic accuracy; Diagnostic value; Gram stain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; STAINING AND LABELING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049123110     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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