Impact of mouth rinsing before sputum collection on culture contamination

African Health Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 200-

  Muzanye, G ^a   Morgan, K ^b   Johnson, J ^a   Mayanja Kizza, H ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Joint Clinical Research Centre   (Uganda)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOUTH FLORA; MOUTH HYGIENE; PAKISTAN; PATIENT CARE; SPUTUM CULTURE; TUBERCULOSIS;

HUMANS; MOUTH; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 77949506726     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (2)

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2. Khan MS, Dar O, Sismanidis C, Shah K, Godfrey-Faussett P. Improvement of tuberculosis case detection and reduction of discrepancies between men and women by simple sputum-submission instructions: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2007; 369: 1955-1960.