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[A rapid bacteriologic method for the diagnosis and surveillance of nosocomial pneumopathies]
J Raymond1, F Barbotin Larrieu, M Bergeret
1Service de Microbiologie, Réanimation chirurgicale, Hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris.
Cahiers D'Anesthesiologie
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
The authors report a rapid quantitative culture of endotracheal aspiration samples in mechanically ventilated children. There was a good correlation (94.7%) between clinical and radiographic features of pneumonia and a cutoff point of 10(5) cfu.ml-1. The sensitivity of this rapid quantitative culture was 85% when compared with usual quantitative culture.