Microscopic Analysis and Quality Assessment of Induced Sputum From Children With Pneumonia in the PERCH Study

BACKGROUND. It is standard practice for laboratories to assess the cellular quality of expectorated sputum specimens to check that they originated from the lower respiratory tract. The presence of low numbers of squamous epithelial cells (SECs) and high numbers of polymorphonuclear (PMN) cells are r...

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Autores principales: Murdoch, David R., Morpeth, Susan C., Hammitt, Laura L., Driscoll, Amanda J., Watson, Nora L., Baggett, Henry C., Brooks, W. Abdullah, Deloria Knoll, Maria, Feikin, Daniel R., Kotloff, Karen L., Levine, Orin S., Madhi, Shabir A., O’Brien, Katherine L., Scott, J. Anthony G., Thea, Donald M., Ahmed, Dilruba, Awori, Juliet O., DeLuca, Andrea N., Ebruke, Bernard E., Higdon, Melissa M., Jorakate, Possawat, Karron, Ruth A., Kazungu, Sidi, Kwenda, Geoffrey, Hossain, Lokman, Makprasert, Sirirat, Moore, David P., Mudau, Azwifarwi, Mwaba, John, Panchalingam, Sandra, Park, Daniel E., Prosperi, Christine, Salaudeen, Rasheed, Toure, Aliou, Zeger, Scott L., Howie, Stephen R. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix083

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