Sentence examples for bacteriological criteria from inspiring English sources

Bacteriological criteria could not always be used because respiratory samples were not systematically collected.

In this study, we used an association of clinical and bacteriological criteria to diagnose VAP in reference to the 2005 ATS/IDSA guidelines [12].

Patients with suspected MDR-TB but without DST results were categorized according to clinical and bacteriological criteria, and high-risk patients were started empirically on second-line TB drugs.

Bacteriological criteria played a part in the treatment decision only in nosocomial infections (14/23 newborns).

In order to distinguish between contamination and infection, a diagnosis of NTM pulmonary disease should be established in a combination of clinical, radiological, bacteriological, and histological criteria [ 39, 59, 61].

Shunt infection has been defined differently depending on the goal of the study: a positive culture is an adequate criterion for bacteriological studies; clinical symptoms with positive culture and or pleocytosis (Odio's criteria) [ 6] is a criterion more adapted to clinical studies, however cultures can be falsely positive as well as falsely negative.

Isolates were characterized phenotypically by standard bacteriological procedures and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles were obtained using Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) criteria.

Regarding patient numbers, inclusion criteria, and conventional bacteriological analysis the present study is comparable to several studies on RT patients [11] [14], [16] [18], [20] and on PTA patients [6], [7], [9] conducted in the last twenty years.

The bacteriological diagnosis required the following criteria: Sputum and TA cultures growing ≥ 10 colony-forming units (cfu /ml of bacteria, BAL cultures growing 10 cfu/ml of bacteria, blood or pleural fluid cultures revealing the same pathogen with the respiratory samples.

For the remaining 27 (53%) patients, the NTM case definition criteria, either clinical or bacteriological, were not fulfilled.

* 2 unknown prescriptions not included Overall, only 1 in 5 urine samples of patients with suspected UTI have bacteriological confirmation of UTI by the criteria applied in this study.