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Common antibiotics for BE exacerbation.
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 7 8:09pm | Replies (22)Comment receiving replies
My understanding is that screening for Pseudomonas aeruginosa is with the standard sputum culture. Now that you raise this as a potential issue I will double check with pulmonary and report back!
My standard sputum culture tests for:
Legionella
Fungus
Respiratory including gram stain (this is where I thought pseudo would show up)
AFB stain
another one after the stain for NTM (EPIC hard to read, don't like!)
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At U of IA it seems to be a distinct test. Maybe it just depends on the lab and the kind of tests they do??
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Looked up this info. Here is what Mayo states about a CF culture;
This culture is specifically designed and utilizes conventional and additional selective media (compared to non-CF respiratory cultures) to isolate bacteria commonly associated with pulmonary disease in patients with CF.