Sentence examples for sputum pretreatment from inspiring English sources

Sputum pretreatment procedures may enhance sensitivity.

Short duration sputum pretreatment with bleach and USP centrifugation did not increase yield as compared to direct sputum smears.

Our preliminary study evaluated two short-duration sputum pretreatment methods among pulmonary TB suspects in a large referral centre in India.

It is important that sputum pretreatment procedures do not cause prolonged delay in the reporting of results, or they will not be operationally feasible for national TB programs in high burden countries.

We did a pilot study to compare the diagnostic accuracy and incremental yield of two short-duration (<1 hour) sputum pretreatment procedures to optimize direct smears among patients with suspected TB at a referral hospital in India.

Previous reports of benefit gained by sputum pretreatment have not contained rigorous blinding procedures, and may have overestimated the benefit of short duration pretreatments.[22] Our report included a procedure in which the laboratory technician was unaware of the previous or concurrent smear results.

In summary, our pilot data suggest that short duration sputum pretreatments provide no additional diagnostic benefit in India.

Included patients were asked to submit 2 pretreatment sputum specimens for Mycobacterium culture.

Pretreatment sputum was available from 35 patients whose characteristics are shown in Table 1.

Assessing patient infectiousness is challenging [ 36], and in separate research we are assessing whether the wide, naturally occurring variations in M. tuberculosis proportion viability in pretreatment sputum had implications for patients' infectiousness to their contacts.

The sputum sample used for pretreatment was different from the sputum sample used for culture.