Prospective study of the usefulness of sputum Gram stain in the initial approach to community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization

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From February 1995 through May 1997, we prospectively studied 533 patients with community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization in order to assess the current usefulness of sputum Gram stain in guiding the etiologic diagnosis and initial antibiotic therapy when applied routinely. Sputum sampl …
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Authors Rosón B;Carratalà J;Verdaguer R;Dorca J;Manresa F;Gudiol F;;
Journal Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Year 2000
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support non-u.s. gov't adult female male adolescent aged middle aged Prospective Studies 80 and over sensitivity and specificity anti-bacterial agents / therapeutic use community-acquired infections / drug therapy community-acquired infections / microbiology pneumonia pneumococcal / microbiology haemophilus infections / diagnosis bacterial / drug therapy bacterial / diagnosis* bacterial / microbiology pmid:11049763 doi:10.1086/318151 b rosón j carratalà f gudiol community-acquired infections / diagnosis* gentian violet haemophilus infections / microbiology haemophilus influenzae phenazines pneumococcal / diagnosis sputum / microbiology* staining and labeling / statistics & numerical data

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