Sentence examples for microbiologic diagnosis from inspiring English sources

Of the remaining 101 (50%) patients without a clinical or microbiologic diagnosis of pulmonary TB, 59 (29%) patients had one or more of the following diagnoses: 41 (20%) had bacterial pneumonia, 8 (4%) had cryptococcal pneumonia, 5 (2.5%) had Kaposi's sarcoma, 4 (2%) had Pneumocystis pneumonia, and 3 (1.5%) had other non-infectious or extra-pulmonary explanations for their symptoms.

Microbiologic diagnosis of Gordonia spp. remains difficult.

Nevertheless, the microbiologic diagnosis of spinal implant infection can be challenging.

In most of the world, microbiologic diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is limited to microscopy.

Independent expert pulmonologists unaware of the microbiologic diagnosis retrospectively interpreted each CXR.

In addition, obtaining wound cultures and attempting a microbiologic diagnosis led to more appropriate vancomycin use.

Microbiologic diagnosis before hospital discharge and physician education may limit inappropriate vancomycin use in homecare patients.

Epidemiologic investigation of leptospirosis is often hampered by the difficulty of making a definitive microbiologic diagnosis.

In order to focus on differences between the nine selected strategies above in a tractable framework, we subsumed all other diagnostic tests and procedures (e.g., chest X-ray, antrialsic triass) as a probability of non-microbiologic diagnosis, without attempting to specify the associated cost or diagnostic delay.

In this subgroup of patients colonoscopy during follow-up revealed abnormality in 75%, and provided histopathologic and microbiologic TB diagnosis in 50%.

Criteria used for diagnosis, microbiologic techniques and the decision to prescribe AT were left to the physician's discretion.