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A 37-year old female asked:
Sputum culture showed normal flora.gram stain showed mod.amt of gram positive and neg. bacilli and mod.amt of gram positive cocci.few wbc.concerns?
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A 46-year old female asked:
My results from culture sputum: gram stain: moderate red blood cell, many gram positive cocci in gram stain, many gram positive bacilli, many negative bacilli in gram stain . What that mean?
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A 31-year old female asked:
My sputum culture came back as gram positive cocci...what could i have? ive had two rounds of antibiotics and im still coughing
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A 50-year old male asked:
What is this test for :CULT & GRAM STAIN SPUTUM.
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A 67-year old female asked:
What does Occasional Gram Positive Cocci and Rare Gram Negative Rods mean from a sputum culture?
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A female asked:
I had a sputum test and the resulta were as follows - Few epithelial cells, few white cells. Mixed flora seen on gram stain. What does this mean?
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A male asked:
Gram stain sputum- presence of few epithelial cells, moderate number of pus cells,few gram positive cocci in chain observed in smear What does this in?
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A 67-year old female asked:
What the report Occasional Gram Positive Cocci mean from a sputum test?
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A member asked:
Hello! In a sputum test, what do MODERATE GRAM POSITIVE COCCI, RARE GRAM POSITIVE RODS, FEW GRAM NEGATIVE RODS mean? My wife has CVID and is very ill.
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A 50-year old female asked:
What does Gram positive cocci in chains, Moderate WBC and Normal upper respiratory flora in sputum mean?
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A 50-year old male asked:
SPUTUM Gram Stain1+ Squamous Epithelial Cells 2+ Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes 2+ Mixed Gram Positive Organisms 2+ Normal Flora Is this normal.
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A 37-year old female asked:
Why is it youre negative in sputum test but positive in sputum culture?
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A 33-year old asked:
What type of doctor can order a sputum culture?
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A 46-year old female asked:
Sputum test negative awaiting for the culture in 3 weeks. How like to be positive ?I have TB latent but with symptoms for active TB.
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A 43-year old asked:
How is a sputum culture obtained when you are being tested?
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A 48-year old asked:
Bronchitis how is a sputum culture done?
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A 29-year old asked:
Why would someone need a sputum fungal culture test?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Why would a 4 year old be diagnosis w pseudomonas from a sputum culture?
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A 42-year old asked:
What's the purpose of having an acid-fast staining performed on a sputum sample from a patient exhibiting clinical signs of tuberculosis?
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A 45-year old female asked:
My sputum culture had klebsiella oxytoca, had no symptoms my sputum was tested for something else. Now I have a cold, possible to get k.Pneumoniae?
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A 30-year old female asked:
How infectious am I? I am awaiting sputum culture results to confirm whether I have MDR TB. In the interim,I have been placed on Rifafour. How infectious will I be once on these meds for 2 weeks? Will it assist in any way?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Why would one use macconkey agar to plate throat, sputum, and wound cultures? What are they looking for?
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A 38-year old female asked:
4 week lab culture of pertulent sputum culture came back as Anaerobic Prevotella betalac+ scant growth and HI heavy growth, on his 6th abcess! help!
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A 25-year old male asked:
I feel I have phlegm in the throat for 3 months, sputum occasionally, mostly in the morning. I had a blood stained sputum today, what could it be?
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A 43-year old asked:
Whats a sputum culture?
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A 20-year old male asked:
Currently I am on tb medication. After how much time usually, sputum culture gets negative? If it is active and pulmonary tb. And does afb sputum culture indicate that tb medication is in the sputum or not?
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A 46-year old female asked:
Hi. I have abpa. I have now been diagnosed with mai with a sputum culture and lung infections that are not responding to prednis...How should I treat?
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A 52-year old male asked:
Hi, I had a barium swallow x-ray in February, which was normal. now having some minor issues. Also coughing some blood stained sputum, Is it possible for Esophageal cancer to be advanced now 10 months later. How long does it take to develop. Thanks.
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A 32-year old female asked:
What does Mixed flora, and many WBC's and few epithelial cells mean in a sputum culture? I have CVID and interstitial lung disease.
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A 22-year old male asked:
Cough for last 4 days. Almost no cough at daytime but sever cough in night that sometimes i have to vomit. Taking amoxil, cpm & freehaler for 2 days it only improved little. History of pulmonary tuberculosis but sputum culture was -tive. Time toheal?
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