Diagnostic accuracy of oropharyngeal cul
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Margaret Rosenfeld; Julia Emerson; Frank Accurso; David Armstrong; Robert Castil
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The objective of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of oropharyngeal (OP) cultures relative to simultaneous bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cultures in very young children with CF, and to examine the effects of bacterial density, age, and study cohort on diagnostic accuracy. Respiratory c