Is there a real need for sputum culture for community-acquired pneumonia diagnostics? Results from a retrospective study in Russia.
Olga S KobyakovaIvan A DeevDaria A VinokurovaAnastasia P ZimaDenis S TyufilinVera E YunEkaterina A ChernyshevaNikolay D YarovoyKsenia R RatkinaAnna I ShemuratovaEmmanuel U AgboKristina V KulikovaEkaterina K TaginaEvgeny S KulikovPublished in: Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) (2020)
The violation of the technique and the time of sputum collection resulted in a reduction in the method's value.