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Usually, when someone presents with suspected pneumonia the hospital will sample their lungs with a sputum test or swab. They will often also undergo an X-ray, usually to confirm which parts of ...

Pharyngeal swabs and lower respiratory tract samples are both appropriate for mPCR testing. Many mPCR platforms are now FDA-approved for pneumonia ... When sputum is expectorated from deep within ...

leukocytosis and purulent sputum), microbiologic… Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), formerly called nosocomial pneumonia, is defined as pneumonia occurring 48 hours after admission to the ...

Of the 148 patients referred during the 15 months of the study, 1 patient was not entered in to the study because clinical review indicated the presence of pneumonia. Three patients were withdrawn ...

jiroveci pneumonia in the 30 days prior to the hospital admission ... culture growth for pyogenic bacteria on blood agar and MacConkey agar. Part of each sputum sample was sent to an anatomy/pathology ...

The search terms used were (“Community-acquired pneumonia” OR “Community-acquired infection ... sequencing of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), sputum and whole blood samples from 275 SCAP patients ...