Sentence examples for ml of sputum from inspiring English sources

In severe bronchitis the mucous glands lining the bronchi enlarge greatly, and, commonly, 30 to 60 ml of sputum are produced in a 24-hour period, particularly in the first two hours after awakening in the morning.

The deep breathing and coughing procedures were repeated until at least 1 ml of sputum was obtained.

The cornerstone is sputum smear microscopy, a cheap and simple test to detect the presence of acid-fast bacilli in patient's sputum, but which requires a minimum of 10,000 bacteria per ml of sputum, and cannot simply discern drug susceptibilities [1], [5].

An equal amount of bleach was added to 0.5 ml of sputum in a 50 ml Falcon tube, which were vortexed well and incubated at room temperature for 15 minutes, then distilled water was added to a final volume of 50 ml, and inverted 3 4 times.

Patients able to produce at least 1 mL of sputum were enrolled in the colorimetric study and patients with less than 1 mL of sputum or who were unable to produce sputum spontaneously were included in the string test study.

The sample was determined to be adequate if at least 1 ml of sputum was collected into a sterile container.

The patient was instructed to spit 2 ml of sputum-free saliva into the Oragene DNA Self Collection Kit (DNA Genotek, Ontario, Canada) and stored at room temperature.

A maximum of two attempts were conducted to obtain an adequate sample of at least 3 mls of sputum.

To assess the antimicrobial impact of cysteamine alone and cysteamine in conjunction with antibiotics commonly used to treat infective exacerbations of CF lung disease, 0 · 2 ml of each sputum sample sputum was diluted tenfold in sterile phosphate buffered saline (PBS) and vortexed.

Tunney et al. [ 8] showed that approximately 50% of healthy individuals harbour between 1000 and 10,000 culturable anaerobic bacteria per ml of induced sputum A range of microbial species were also found in induced sputum at low numbers in another study which examined sputum from healthy subjects [ 9].

In another study in adults, 0.72 ml of decontaminated sputum was used for MODS (almost three times higher than our volume) and 0.5 ml was used for MBBacT [7].