Usefulness of sputum gram stain for etiologic diagnosis in community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Implementation of sputum Gram stain in the initial assessment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients is still controversial. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the usefulness of sputum Gram stain for defining the etiologic diagnosis of CAP in adult...

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Autores principales: Del Rio-Pertuz, Gaspar, Gutiérrez, Juan F., Triana, Abel J., Molinares, Jorge L., Robledo-Solano, Andrea B., Meza, José L., Ariza-Bolívar, Orlando M., Acosta-Reyes, Jorge, Garavito, Argenis, Viasus, Diego, Carratalà, Jordi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31077143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4048-6

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