No specific bacteria were detected in sputum, ear discharge, urine or blood cultures.
No specific bacteria were detected in her sputum, ear discharge, urine or blood cultures.
In June 2006, a 27-year-old immunocompetent man was hospitalized in Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil) for fever, cough with purulent bloody sputum, and discharge from and pain in both ears.
In our study, fewer patients in TCM hospitals than in WM hospitals were reported as having symptoms, such as cough and sputum, at discharge.
Diagnosis of microsporidiosis currently depends on morphological demonstration of the organisms in one or more readily obtainable specimens such as stool, duodenal aspirates, urine, sputum, nasal discharge, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, conjunctival smears [ 18].
Have you noticed any sputum (sticky discharge) when coughing?
P. marneffei was isolated from clinical specimens including blood, bone marrow, bone, sputum, lung, or discharge from skin lesions and cultured on Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA) at 25°C and 37°C.
The 163 clinical isolates comprising S. aureus (95) and S. epidermidis (68) were primarily isolated from blood, sputum and wound discharges (Supplementary Table S1).
Notwithstanding, GPs still tend to overestimate the likelihood of bacterial infection when evaluating the importance of colored nasal discharge or sputum, leading to increased numbers of antibiotic prescriptions [ 23].
