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Have Bronchiectasis, recently diagnosed with pseudomonas

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Sep 30 4:40pm | Replies (211)
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Sue, will the NJH lab accept your sputum sample and consult with your doctors even if you are not an NJH patient? My lab does not so colony counts and I would like to send my sputum sample there. I am also trying to get a n appointment with NJH. Did you ever go there?
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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | Oct 23, 2021

Your physician can arrange this. In my clinic, the sample goes first to the department of health for initial AFB testing (I live in a high TB area, and this rules out tuberculosis) then to NJH for completion - culture grow-out, colony counts and sensitivity testing.
My pulmonologist says there are just a few labs who do this.
Sue

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