A 57-year-old female asked:
why did a sinus culture test positive for stenotrophomonas maltophilia and serratia marcescens but no white cells?
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Dr. Ed Friedlander answered
44 years experience Pathology
Commensals: Without white cells on a smear, very likely these are harmless microbes that just happened to be living there.
Answered on Aug 1, 2017
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