Sentence examples for sputum smear from inspiring English sources

Mycobacterium bacillus was seen in sputum smear.

On admission, 6 patients (39 %) had converted their sputum smear.

Among 10 surgical patients whose sputum smear remained positive, 9 converted their sputum smear in a median time of 45 days.

After 3 weeks of treatment, three consecutive samples of sputum smear microscopy were negative.

For all patients: cytological reports and sputum smear were negative (three times) for pulmonary tuberculosis.

Based on positive sputum smear microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), she was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

To diagnose sputum smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is difficult and the ability of high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) for diagnosing PTB has remained unclear in the sputum smear-negative setting.

We retrospectively investigated whether or not this imaging modality can predict risk for sputum smear-negative PTB.

Only 15% of the patients were sputum smear-positive; this differs dramatically from adults, among whom approximately half of notified TB cases have sputum smear-positive PTB.

Second, the majority of the patients treated had EP-TB and sputum smear-negative PTB.

Among 394 pulmonary TB (PTB) cases, 165 (42%) were sputum smear-positive.