A persistent cough could be a sign of either allergies or tuberculosis (TB). While allergic coughs are dry and triggered by ...

Ireland's HSE has issued an urgent warning that a specific type of cough could signal the world's deadliest infectious ...

A sputum culture can help identify specific causes of infections in the lungs and airways. Such infections can lead to coughing that produces yellow, greenish, or blood-tinged sputum, in addition to ...

A sputum culture can help identify specific causes of infections in the lungs and airways. Such infections can lead to coughing that produces yellow, greenish, or blood-tinged sputum, in addition to ...

At 12 months, severe COVID-19 was associated with cough and sputum production based on imaging findings, kidney and liver abnormalities, pulmonary blood clots, and higher levels of lactate ...

82 reported cough of median (IQR) duration 4 (1–8) weeks. There was a significant association of the presence of cough with TB sputum culture positivity (odds ratio, 11.0; 95% confidence interval, 2.5 ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs but can spread to other organs. We got in ...

In a different group of 30 productive adult patients, a cough swab was taken and then sputum was spontaneously expectorated. Samples were cultured for the common CF pathogens using the following media ...

Get emergency medical care if your bronchodilator or rescue medication does not relieve your symptoms. Coughing up a large amount of blood. Although coughing up blood in your mucus can happen when you ...

Aim: To evaluate the cough plate as an alternative method of obtaining respiratory samples for microbiological culture. Methods and Results: Using sputum culture as the “gold standard”, the cough ...

BACKGROUND Airway hyperresponsiveness, induced sputum eosinophils, and exhaled nitric oxide (NO) levels have all been proposed as non-invasive markers for monitoring airway inflammation in patients ...