Value of sputum culture in diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia
- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 6 (1), 62-65
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.6.1.62-65.1977
Abstract
Culture of sputum was extremely useful in diagnosing the etiology of pneumococcal pneumonia. Of 31 consecutive patients with bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia, 29 (94%) had Streptococcus pneumoniae cultured from sputum. Recovery of pneumococci in culture was enhanced by anaerobic incubation and a plate bile test and an optochin disk on a primary blood agar plate.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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